Narara: Recovering addict Azzam Yaghi, 47, pleads guilty to supplying commercial quantity of drugs from rehab centre
Rehab is usually a place addicts go to get clean. But one user pinched with more than $50k cash has admitted to using his stint in recovery to peddle large amounts of drugs, a court has heard.
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A man has pleaded guilty to supplying large and commercial quantities of drugs, as well as dealing with more than $50,000 cash, suspected of being proceeds of crime, from a Central Coast rehabilitation centre.
Azzam Yaghi, 47, faced Gosford Local Court on Friday where he pleaded guilty to supplying a large amount of meth, a commercial quantity of GBH and supplying drugs on an ongoing basis from a Narara rehabilitation centre.
Yaghi also pleaded guilty to dealing with $53,370 cash suspected of being proceeds of crime.
An agreed set of facts states Yaghi was a full-time resident of a drug rehabilitation centre at 13 Eric Close, Narara, when police raided the group home following a tip drugs were being sold from the premises.
During the raid on August 19, 2021, police seized two Tommy Hilfiger shoulder bags containing a large volume of cash, various mobile phones, several plastic bags containing a crystal substance including one weighing 146g and a number of 600ml bottles containing a clear liquid along with several large syringes.
Yaghi’s DNA was matched to swabs taken from Tommy Hilfiger bags, several of the plastic bags that were analysed and found to contain meth and a bottle containing 385ml of Gamma-Butyrolactone — also known as GBL.
The facts state Yaghi was also found to have supplied various drugs on an ongoing basis in the month leading up to the raid including several “balls” of meth for $850, a quarter of an ounce of MDMA for $1750 and one litre of GBH for $3200.
Yaghi, who appeared via video link from custody, was adjourned to Gosford District Court on September 26 to fix a sentence date.
The rehabilitation centre has since closed down.
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