EXPOSED: Drug dealing mums and dads in Gympie courts
As always, the Gympie courts have dealt with a long list of drug dealers being caught in the act, among other drug-related offences in recent times. Some of these local drug dealers also happened to be parents, expected by society to set a good example.
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As always, the Gympie courts have dealt with a long list of drug dealers being caught in the act, among other drug-related offences in recent times.
Some of these local drug dealers also happened to be parents, expected by society to set a good example.
Here is a look at a list of Gympie parents doing anything but the right thing in perpetuating the cycle of drug abuse across the region.
Man who rode stolen horse into pub in court for dealing
A Gympie man who previously rode a stolen horse into Gympie‘s Jockey Club Hotel and punched a stranger in the face, = found himself back before the courts on several charges of supplying meth.
In January last year police with a search warrant for another man raided a house in Gympie where they found Matthew Lawrence Grimstone, 25, and discovered he had been supplying the wanted man with meth.
Grimstone faced the Gympie District Court last September and pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying drugs schedule one.
The court heard Grimstone worked on and off as a concreter, and was a father to two children, one to a former partner and one with his girlfriend of four years, who was pregnant with their second child at the time.
Grimstone‘s 83 days in pre-sentence custody was declared time served, and he was given a head sentence of 12 months jail, suspended for 12 months.
Mum pleads guilty to dealing meth
A small time meth dealer and mother narrowly avoided jail after organising multiple meth transactions over the course of a week, including one while waiting at court to deal with charges stemming from her own drug use.
Jodie Knowles, 51, pleaded guilty in the Gympie District Court in March to distributing between 0.1g and 0.5g of meth to five different people between January 15 to 22 last year, making more than $500 as a result.
Knowles was sentenced to 20 months jail with immediate parole, but was warned that any further crimes committed in that time would put her behind bars.
Druggie mum supplied drugs, stole car and money
A young mum with a history of drug-related crimes racked up a total of 28 charges including 12 counts of supplying drugs and 16 other charges, including stealing petrol and possessing syringes.
Tamika Geiger appeared by videolink in Gympie District Court in February, pleading guilty to all charges.
Crown prosecutor Aleksandra Nikolic told the court phone messaged has revealed 12 occasions on which Geiger had offered to supply drugs to others.
Judge Glen Cash ordered Geiger be released on probation for two years given the fact she had already been behind bars for six months, with her release to come once an outstanding matter was dealt with in the Magistrates Court.
Meth-supplier mum halted court with medical emergency
A mum who supplied dangerous drugs to her friends and for herself was half an hour late for her sentencing in Gympie District Court last April, and then suffered such severe chest pain half way during her appearance that the court had to be adjourned.
Kara-Lea Mayfield, then 26, pleaded guilty to six charges of supplying dangerous drugs when she appeared, supported by her mother and her two siblings.
Phone messages exposed Mayfield arranging the supply of methamphetamine for herself and others over a two-month period of offending.
Mayfield was given two years’ probation with specific requirements, including submitting to regular drug tests and psychological treatment.
Toddlers‘ teenage babysitter ’paid in ice’
A reckless father gave his 15-year-old niece ice before leaving her to babysit his two very young children, the Gympie court heard.
The 32-year-old former Gympie man, who could not be named, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to supplying his niece and her 18-year-old friend with ice.
The court heard the man offered to give his niece a small amount of money in exchange for babysitting his children, but the teenage girl asked for a small amount of ice instead.
The father was sentenced to 18 months‘ jail, but was given immediate parole after time served.
Drug supplier jailed, warned ‘you will see an early grave’
Michael Ethan Dan, 27, was jailed on remand after police searched his home and his father’s home last January and found dangerous drugs, evidence he was producing and supplying dangerous drugs, and explosives.
The court heard police found varying quantities of steroids, meth, cannabis and other restricted drugs at the properties – the cannabis plants weighing a total of 1.5kg. They also found 16 shells for a 12 gauge shotgun, and various text messages on his phone which indicated Dan was supplying drugs to another person.
Judge Glen Cash told Dan if he went near drugs when he was released on parole he would “go back to jail and you will be seeing an early grave”.
Dan was sentenced to a total of three years jail with 301 days spent behind bars prior to his sentence counted as time served.
Drug dealer Gympie mum busted selling meth and weed
A middle-aged Gympie mother was told she had “a longstanding problem with drug abuse” after being caught dealing meth and weed a number of times.
Leanne Margaret MacGregor, 44, was detected selling or attempting to sell various quantities of the two drugs on five occasions as police investigated someone else suspected of drug dealing, the Gympie District Court heard.
One of MacGregor’s deals involved 7g of cannabis and 1.7g meth provided to the man for $430, another involved 2g of meth amounting to $320 and another totalling 1.75g of meth.
MacGregor arranged to sell an 8-ball of meth and ounce of cannabis on another occasion and a “very small amount” of meth on yet another, but those deals did not get done.
Judge Glen Cash acknowledged MacGregor’s timely guilty pleas to five charges of supplying or offering to supply a dangerous drug, one charge of possessing a bong and one charge of possessing a small quantity of dangerous drugs, but noted she was of “mature” age with a criminal history dating back “a fair way”.
MacGregor was given a head sentence of 18 months’ jail but was released immediately on parole, where she will have to undergo regular drug testing.
Amamoor dad an ‘example of how meth destroys lives’
A 35-year-old Amamoor father and former businessman was called a “living example” of how meth destroyed lives while being sentenced to jail for a range of drug offences in April this year.
Andrew William Donney appeared by video in Gympie District Court to plead guilty to more than a dozen charges, including supplying and possessing methamphetamine, possessing explosives without authority and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Donney was sentenced to six months in jail; he became eligible for parole at the end of May.
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