‘This was a bad mistake’: magistrate slams festival drug supplier
A Central Coast teenager who tried to smuggle 25 ecstasy capsules into a Sydney music festival crudely hidden in bags filled with instant coffee, in her bra, has escaped jail.
A Central Coast teenager who tried to smuggle 25 ecstasy capsules into a Sydney music festival crudely hidden in bags filled with instant coffee, in her bra, has escaped jail.
But Lexie Rose Miller, 18, of Berkeley Vale, did not escape a conviction after facing Gosford Local Court today where she was put on a community corrections order for two years.
It comes as two men charged with supplying the drugs suspected of triggering the fatal overdose of fellow Central Coast woman Alex Ross-King did not enter pleas and had their matters adjourned.
Miller pleaded guilty to one count of supplying a prohibited drug with Magistrate Elizabeth Ellis admonishing the aspiring veterinary nurse.
“This was a bad mistake,” Ms Ellis scolded Miller.
“Yeah, I know,” Miller replied.
An agreed statement of facts revealed Miller entered the soldout Field Day 2019 music festival with a crowd of 28,000 in the Domain, Sydney, about 12.50pm on January 1.
“The event experiences a high incidence of drug related crime, predominantly the possession and supply of prohibited ‘party drugs’ namely ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, amphetamine and cannabis,” the facts read.
“Drug detection dog Amber indicated a scent on the accused as she walked past.”
Miller told police she had two capsules in her bra but when they took her to a designated searching tent they found two small plastic bags with one containing 13 MDMA capsules and the other 12.
“These two bags were contained within a larger bag which she had instant coffee located inside, which police believe was an attempt to musk (sic) the odour,” the facts read.
“Test them, they’re fake,” she told police.
“My friend told me to bring them into the festival and try and sell them.”
She was taken to Sydney City Police station but had a medical episode and was taken to St Vincent hospital.
She was later released from hospital but declined to participate in a recorded interview.
Meanwhile Mark Haywood, 20, of Mount Elliott, and Luke William Xerri, 23, of Saratoga, also faced court charged with supplying the drugs, police will allege, that were eventually taken by Ms Ross-King before her fatal overdose at the FOMO festival at Parramatta.
Mr Haywood was charged with one count of supplying six capsules of MDMA on January 11 and was adjourned to face court again on March 12.
Mr Xerri is facing one count of possessing a prohibited drug and five counts of supply including 26 capsules on January 16, four capsules on January 14, a further 16 capsules on December 28 and 10 capsules of MDMA on December 29.
He was adjourned to March 19.
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