Gloria Marie Sims and Zarcody Sims charged with trafficking meth

The courts have banned all contact between three women in one family after a grandmother and granddaughter were allegedly caught selling ice and discussing the deals with a mother currently doing time for the same offence.

Three generations of a family have been barred from contacting each other after police raided a grandmother’s house and allegedly found a large amount of methylamphetamine and cash.

Police executed a search warrant at the Highfields address on Tuesday evening and seized an estimated 30g of meth and about $26,000 in cash.

They took the owner of the house, 71-year-old Gloria Marie Sims, and her 18-year-old granddaughter Zarcody Sims, into custody.

The pair have been charged with a range of serious drug offences including trafficking, supplying dangerous drugs, possessing restricted medicines and receiving property obtained from trafficking from supplying dangerous drugs.

Duty lawyer Phil Stainton appeared on behalf of Gloria Marie Sims when her matters were mentioned in Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Zarcody Sims, 18, has been charged with six serious drug offences, including trafficking in dangerous drugs.

Mr Stainton told the court his client was treated for cancer in 2019 but was in remission. She also had a heart attack in 2015 and suffered from depression.

Mr Stainton told the court his client was medicated for three ailments.

In arguing for the grandmother’s bail, Mr Stainton said she was willing to surrender her passport, report to the Toowoomba police station weekly and abstain from having any contact with her granddaughter Zarcody Sims, who police allege was party to the trafficking.

This would require the granddaughter to move out of the home they shared.   

The no contact ban was also extended to Gloria Sims’ daughter Michelle Louise Sims, who is currently serving a term of imprisonment for trafficking meth.

Included in the police case against the grandmother and granddaughters are recordings of prison phone calls to Michelle Louise Sims where they allegedly refer to selling drugs.

Michelle Lousie Sims was sentenced to three years in jail for trafficking in dangerous drugs on December 14, 2021.

She was released on parole midway through her sentence but has since been returned to prison.

Gloria Marie Sims was granted bail and will be back in court on March 3.

Zarcody Sims was also given bail and will be back in court on February 28. 

Originally published as Gloria Marie Sims and Zarcody Sims charged with trafficking meth