Simonne Latetia Louise Jeffs pleads guilty to seven drug-related charges
A Qld woman had just been holding onto a stash of marijuana for a mate to pass on to someone else when she was caught up in a police operation.
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A bottleshop attendant had just been holding onto a stash of marijuana for a mate to pass on to someone else when she was caught up in a police sting.
Simonne Latetia Louise Jeffs wasn’t the main target of police attention when she was arrested for supplying dangerous drugs in early 2024.
In fact her lawyer argued it was a different type of supply given she was not onselling to support a habit, Mackay Magistrates Court heard.
“It’s a different category of case in that she was holding it and then supplied it to essentially a drug dealer who was being watch by police,” Barron and Allen Lawyers solicitor Aaron Sellentin said.
Jeffs, a 45-year-old Mackay woman, pleaded guilty to seven charges committed between November 6, 2023 and January 19, 2024 including two counts of supplying marijuana (one ounce and then six ounces) and possessing a small quantity of methylamphetamines.
Magistrate Michelle Howard accepted Jeffs role in the supply offending was organising the handover of drugs for a friend.
“You were holding that on behalf of another person and received no commercial gain,” Ms Howard said.
“You come before the court with a history of drug-related offended dating back to 2015.”
The court heard her last drug-related offending was in 2018 and Ms Howard accepted there had been a substantial gap.
“But again you come back before the court in relation to the same type of offending,” she noted.
Mr Sellentin submitted his client’s involvement in the matter was one of “poor judgement”, which Ms Howard accepted and balanced against Jeffs’s history of drug use.
The court heard she worked as a bottleshop attendant.
Ultimately Ms Howard determined a nine-month probation order was appropriate and convictions were not recorded.
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