Second Woy Woy drug dealer Dean Phillips pleads guilty in as many weeks
Lists of customer’s names, their phone numbers and addresses of known drug dealers across the Peninsula have been revealed after middle level supplier Dean Phillips pleaded guilty.
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A mid-tier drug dealer introduced an undercover cop to his upline supplier and sold the officer replica firearms he passed off as genuine, a court has heard.
Dean William Maxwell Phillips pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying commercial quantities of drugs and unlawfully selling three firearms within 12 months at Gosford Local Court on Friday.
The 39-year-old, of Railway St Woy Woy, also pleaded guilty to a further commercial supply charge, knowingly take part in the supply of drugs and possessing an unregistered firearm — offences which will be taken into account on a Form 1 certificate when he is sentenced.
Five other drug supply charges and two firearm offences were withdrawn and dismissed.
An agreed set of facts tendered to court revealed Brisbane Water Police established Strike Force Basic to investigate the supply of the drug ‘ice’ at Woy Woy and surrounding areas in November 2018.
In March last year police were granted consent to conduct a “controlled operation” where an undercover officer was planted in the area.
The officer was introduced to Phillips on March 25 who sold him 6.75g of ‘ice’ for $1200 and a imitation Walther Model PP pistol for $1100, which Phillips said was the real thing.
On March 28 they went to a house on Woy Woy Rd where Phillips facilitated the purchase of a shortened .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire Stirling model repeating rifle.
Afterwards they went to one of the upper level car parks at Central Coast Leagues Club where the undercover officer started talking to Samantha Dillon aka “Sammy Dee” who was standing next to a ute.
She got in the car with the undercover officer and Phillips before calling over another man sitting in the ute.
Phillips again facilitated the sale of $4000 worth of drugs from the man named in the police facts as “Heathy”.
The young mother-of-two Samantha Dillon, 26, of Narara, pleaded guilty to the ongoing supply of drugs at Gosford Local Court last Friday, February 14, after she was picked up in April last year and charged with selling drugs and prescription medication via Facebook.
On April 2 Phillips had a conversation via SMS to supply someone 1.75g of heroin for $650.
By mid-April the undercover officer was pressuring Phillips to introduce him to his supplier but Phillips said “He’s a very private man, he’s not gonna do it, he’s trying to get small”.
The undercover officer asked his name and was told it was “Norm”.
Using Phillips as the go-between the officer was able to purchase 12.5g and 12.9g of methylamphetamine for $3800.
The drugs were later tested and found to be between 77-79 per cent pure.
In early May the undercover officer rang Phillips and asked if he could “sort three sandwiches for me” — code for three amounts of ‘ice’.
“Oi, the sandwich shop we went to last time, he was f....n, the sandwiches were good man,” the undercover officer said.
Phillips replied: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. 3,3,3. He’s the most likely contender”.
They bought 25.83g of ice with purity of 79 per cent.
In another deal on May 8, Phillips tried to organise “six sandwiches”.
By mid-May Phillips agreed to introduce him to his supplier, which he purchased 168g of methylamphetamine for $23,400 and a gun that was later found to be a replica Beretta model 94FS pistol.
The undercover officer was given the supplier’s number and told “don’t ever say nothing on the phone” but to call whenever he needed more drugs.
On June 27 police spoke to Phillip’s defacto Aimee Johnstone at an address at The Oaks on Railway St, Woy Woy.
She told police he was not there but they arrested him four hours later as he was trying to leave the premises.
Ms Johnstone was not charged with anything and there is no suggestion she was involved in anyway.
A search of Phillips’ residence uncovered two black notebooks containing a “tick list”, a set of digital scales, a handheld stun device and an unregistered .22 long rifle Sportco rifle.
An analysis of his phone found it was registered to a relative of Ms Johnstone who resided at Dorothy Ave, Woy Woy.
The agreed set of police facts states Phillips used this phone to supply 130.37g of `ice’ in 82 transactions between March 31- April 27.
A list of his customer’s names and phone numbers was tendered in court.
Phillips will face Gosford District Court on March 12 to set a sentencing date.