Greg Boyd: The patriarch of a Bateau Bay heroin syndicate jailed
Dressed in prison greens, Gregory Stuart Boyd faced Gosford District Court on Tuesday via video link from Long Bay Correctional Complex where the 65-year-old shut his eyes and sighed heavily when he heard he would spend at least the next two years inside.
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The man behind a Bateau Bay heroin syndicate has been sentenced to four and a half years jail with a non-parole period of three years.
Gregory Stuart Boyd faced Gosford District Court on Tuesday via video link from Long Bay Correctional Complex.
The 65-year-old, dressed in prison greens, shut his eyes and sighed heavily when he heard that with time served, he would spend at least the next two years inside prison.
Boyd had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying drugs on an ongoing basis between November 6, 2018 and January 9, 2019 — involving 158 transactions and 105.2 grams of heroin.
Along with the charges of supply, the court also took into consideration charges of knowingly directing activities of a criminal group; dealing with proceeds of crime to the value of $4000 and having an instrument to commit a serious offence being a further $5350.
The court heard police seized that amount — the price of one ounce or 28.4g of heroin — when they stopped his vehicle in late 2018 and saw it bulging from his shorts pocket.
“On several occasions police tried to intercept the drug supplies while the offender (Boyd) had the drug in his possession but when they searched him and his vehicle they never found the heroin as the offender would swallow it when police pulled him over,” an agreed statement of facts read.
Boyd was driving a maroon station wagon at 9.35am on Friday, January 4, 2019 at Killarney Vale when police pulled him over but again he managed to swallow it.
The court heard Boyd would purchase his heroin from Robert Calamatta and onsell it to his own customers on a daily or twice-daily basis.
Calamatta was sentenced last week to two and a half years jail with a non-parole period of one year and three months.
Judge Tanya Bright said Calamatta did not have any drug matters on his record, was charged with only one ongoing supply offence and had better prospects of rehabilitation.
“I’m not satisfied parity is to be applied but there’s relativity between the sentences,” she said.
Judge Bright said Boyd knowingly directed three other people to deliver heroin when he was sick or could not do the deliveries himself.
When police attached to Strike Force Lamprey searched Boyd’s Bateau Bay residents on January 10, 2019 they found $4000 in the pocket of a purple long sleeve shirt.
Judge Bright said he was not working and not on government benefits.
“He was supplying drugs for his own financial benefit,” she said.
With time served since he pleaded guilty and was remanded into custody he will be eligible for release on May 5, 2022.