Central Coast gym junkie Dylan Shaw sentenced to four years jail
A musclebound gym junkie — who was on bail for importing steroids with his topless waitress girlfriend when he got busted selling drugs through the mail to undercover cops — will spend a minimum of four years in jail.
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The axe has finally fallen for a gym junkie who started importing steroids and ended up selling a “smorgasbord of drugs” to undercover police.
Dylan Shaw, of Wyee, was sentenced to a total sentence of six years jail, with a non-parole period of four years, for two counts of supplying a commercial quantity of drugs and dealing with the proceeds of crime in Gosford District Court.
A number of other drug offences, on a Form 1 certificate, were also taken into account.
With time already served the 25-year-old will be eligible for release on November 25, 2022.
Judge David Wilson said he accepted Shaw was entitled to a 25 per cent discount for his early guilty plea and found “special circumstances” lowered his moral culpability.
Judge Wilson said Shaw began using drugs and alcohol from the age of 12 “when he lacked the capacity to make rational decisions”.
Shaw was arrested in November 2016 following a two-year sting by Australian Border Force officers, which had intercepted steroids and human growth hormones concealed in consignments from the Philippines and China.
The court heard he was on bail for these offences when undercover police from Strike Force Wandevan began investigating the supply of drugs through two of Shaw’s social media accounts in February 2018.
Reading from an agreed statement of facts, Judge Wilson said an undercover operative contacted Shaw on the Wickr app and organised to purchase drugs on a number of occasions, either meeting Shaw at an address at Warnervale or having the drugs sent via Express Post to a PO Box at Willoughby.
At one point Shaw told the undercover cop he would have trouble filling an order for 1000 MDMA pills because “my guy got busted” but he would find another supplier.
Shaw directed the undercover officer to transfer the money into his girlfriend Nateesha Barlin’s Luxe Lashes business account or cash through Express Post.
On July 26 — a month before he and Barlin were to be sentenced for importing steroids — officers swooped as Shaw and two of his alleged up-line suppliers left a restaurant in Belmore in Sydney’s south west.
A search of his car uncovered $179,000 cash in a hidden compartment.
A further search the next day of his Wyee home found methylamphetamine (ice), $20,100 cash in a Foodworks bag in the lounge room, and 10.11g of cocaine hidden in the oven.
Judge Wilson accepted Shaw’s remorse and his difficult childhood in which Shaw suffered anxiety, left school in Year 7 and ran away for weeks at a time to abuse drugs and alcohol.
He said Shaw presented to the court a strong subjective case “not withstanding of the smorgasbord of drugs” he was caught dealing.
It comes after Shaw’s girlfriend was sentenced to an Intensive Corrections Order for three months and given 250 hours of community service for her role in importing steroids and concealing Shaw’s subsequent drug dealing.
She had been caught on recorded phone taps boasting he had a “good thing going” and how he was being smart “this time”.
“He’s moving about 2 kilos a week. We are making 50k a week,” she was intercepted saying in phone taps.