Jarra Hall sentenced for drug trafficking, dealing, possession
When a Sunshine Coast man lost his job, he took up a new profession. Now the inner workings of the aspiring youth worker’s popular drug trafficking business can be exposed.
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The inner workings of a cashed-up former teen drug dealer, who kept a number of drug addicts in supply through his dodgy business, has been exposed.
Court documents state Mountain Creek man Jarra Hall, 20, who appeared in Maroochydore District Court on March 30, started a business peddling marijuana and occasionally Xanax between January 31 and May 21, 2022, after he lost his licence and could not continue to work as a plaster delivery driver. He was 19 at the time.
Documents state his pricing ranged from $25 for one gram up to $450 for an “ounce”.
He mainly serviced drug addicts and was so popular he told his supplier he could sell one pound of the drugs in “one day (at most)”, the documents state.
He could make up to four sales per day, every day, with a $100 profit for every pound sold.
Customers would contact him through Instagram or encrypted messaging app Signal and ask if he was “on with the buds”. If he did not have any drugs to sell, he would say he was “dry” and would “reload” when he had more.
He had at least three different suppliers, the primary one being a phone contact known as “Fat Toni”, the documents state.
The drugs were collected from his home or from other locations, the documents state, and he would be paid in cash, through bank transfer, Osko or Pay ID.
By the time the five-month business came undone, Hall had made approximately $14,000 in profits; with an extra $9550 in cash proceeds found at his home during a police search in May 2022.
A further seven grams of marijuana, two iPhones, two electric grinders and two bongs were also found, as well as around thirty shoe boxes containing brand new sport sneakers valued between $250 and $1000 a pair, court documents state.
Police prosecutor Rebecca Marks said had Hall tried to hide the cash from police and initially downplayed his involvement in the business, though came clean about his actions in a police interview later that day.
Defence barrister Robert Glenday said his client had difficulties with ADHD, had been badly assaulted previously and needed psychological assistance.
He was now medicated, Mr Glenday said, and was earning $567 a fortnight on Jobseeker while studying to be Youth Worker at TAFE.
“He has changed his attitude, he has engaged with different support groups … next week he’s going to … a job trial,” he said.
Hall pleaded guilty to trafficking, three charges of supplying drugs, possessing drugs, possessing property obtained from trafficking, possessing a thing used in the connection of trafficking drugs, possessing drug utensils and obstructing a police officer.
He was sentenced to three years’ prison with an immediate parole release date.
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