Central Coast family-run heroin syndicate charged

A 64-year-old man is the alleged kingpin of a family heroin syndicate who continued selling drugs on a daily basis despite knowing police were on to him, a court has heard.

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A 64-year-old man is the alleged kingpin of a family heroin syndicate who continued selling drugs on a daily basis despite knowing police were on to him, a court has heard.

Police searched Gregory Boyd’s home at 20 Morely Ave, Bateau Bay, about 7.30am on Thursday as part of six simultaneous raids across five suburbs on the Central Coast.

The 64-year-old was arrested along with his wife Narelle Bailey, 60, their son Stuart Boyd, 27, and another man Dane Buckley, 34.

The house at 20 Morely Av, Bateau Bay, raided by police. Picture: Google

The four were taken to Wyong Police Station and charged with multiple offences.

Mr Boyd was charged with 154 counts of supplying a prohibited drug.

Police facts, which ran into the hundreds of pages and were tendered during a number of bail applications at Wyong Local Court yesterday, allege Mr Boyd was the leader of a drug syndicate and used members of his family to supply customers “on a daily basis”.

Relying on hundreds of phone intercepts, the facts allege the syndicate used code names for various drugs and different weights such as a “street”, a “full one” and a “little one”.

Greg Boyd and Narelle Bailey, of Bateau Bay, have been charged over an alleged heroin ring.

The facts allege despite repeated vehicle stops and searches by police, Mr Boyd continued to sell drugs, mostly heroin, while fully aware of the “police pressure”.

Tuggerah Lakes Drug and Anti-Theft Unit established Strike Force Lamprey in October to investigate the supply of prohibited drugs.

As officers from Strike Force Lamprey were searching the Boyd’s home, more police were searching the home of Robert Calamatta, 41, at Tall Timbers Rd, Wamberal.

Stuart Boyd, 27, of Bateau Bay.

He was later charged with 47 drug supply offences and refused bail to face court today.

His solicitor Brad Kernick told the court Mr Calamatta’s involvement was “more serious” because he supplied drugs to Mr Boyd, who in turn used his family to distribute them.

Four other people, Carlos Anthony, 42, Tiegan Hayes, 21, and Craig Jones, all of Long Jetty and Daniel Kearns, 37, of Holgate, were also charged with allegedly onselling small quantities of the drugs.

In a series of rolling bail applications, Ms Bailey, Mr Boyd, his son, Mr Buckley, Mr Calamatta and Ms Hayes, were all granted bail.

21-year-old Ms Hayes cried openly in the dock and Mr Buckley was so morbidly overweight he could not fit in the dock and was required to sit beside it on a chair.

They were all granted bail except for Mr Anthony, whose Legal Aid solicitor did not make an application for release.

Mr Kearns was expected to apply for bail at Gosford Local Court yesterday while Mr Jones’ matter had not been dealt with at the time of press.