Drug trafficker Adam Lee Moore, 34, kept a safe house at his mother’s place

A Rockhampton man who appeared to have more than 50 customers not only trafficked drugs while on parole, he also forged documents to make himself look better at sentencing.

A Rockhampton man not only trafficked drugs while on parole for supplying drugs, he also forged documents to make himself look better during sentencing and kept a safe house.

These actions came back to bite Adam Lee Moore, 34, as he was sentenced to six years prison on December 1, made up of 4.5 years for four months trafficking methamphetamines including three supplies to police and 1.5 years for forging documents that were aimed to pervert the course of justice.

Moore, who had a 14-page criminal record for 114 offences, was discovered trafficking during a police operation with surveillance, telephone intercepts and undercover work used to find out the extent of his offending.

But it was what he had hidden at his mother’s place that indicated how big his drug trafficking operation was.

The court heard Moore’s mother was a recovered drug user.

Police executed two search warrants on Moore’s residence, which he shared with his partner and their two daughters, in Norman Gardens and his mother’s house in another suburb on July 24, 2019.

They found 6.99 pure meth in 9g of substance, 8.23g of testosterone and 60 xanax tablets at his house.

Police found 49.751g of pure meth in 65g of substance, 275g of marijuana, 48 capsules of steroids, a taser and other items at his mother’s place.

Four bundles of cash totalling $19,520 were found between both houses.

Crown prosecutor Matthew Sutton said at Moore’s mother’s place, which was classified as a ‘safe house’, police found weapons near a hidden compartment containing drugs.

He said this offending was an escalation of the offending Moore was on parole for at the time.

Moore had been sentenced in a Supreme Court in January 2018 to 2.5 years prison for supplying 0.1g of meth, possessing 19g of meth, possessing marijuana and other charges.

He had been released after serving 499 days in prison, of which was served as presentence custody.

Just more than a year later, in March 2019, Moore was identified as a drug supplier in the Rockhampton region.

Moore arranged 54 meetings with potential customers in a four-month period, and had received 31 requests to supply drugs, via his mobile phone.

Justice Graeme Crow said Moore avoided discussing particulars of drug deals over the phone, however, he had many conversations about drug debts of $800 or more, and the purchase of 1.75 grams.

Days before he was scheduled to be sentenced for the drug trafficking in May 2021, Moore provided his defence lawyer 10 drug test results – nine of which were discovered to have been forged after he returned a negative result in October 2020 and used that document to create the forgeries.

The day after providing the forgeries to his lawyer, Moore’s hair sample tested positive for drugs and that result was not provided for sentencing.

The court heard Moore claimed he didn’t have the money for further drug screens.

His current barrister, Sheridan Shaw, told the court the documents, including letters for Narcotics Anonymous and certificates showing completion of programs, proving his drug rehabilitation efforts were personally checked by her before this December sentence.

Justice Crow told Moore he had undone a lot of the credit of rehabilitation by forging the documents.

He set Moore’s parole eligibility for May 1, 2023.