Kyle Thompson: Wellington drug syndicate boss pleads guilty

A man who led efforts to flood the streets of country towns with the life-destroying drug ice has pleaded guilty 18 months after his arrest.

A regional NSW drug dealer has confessed to spearheading a major criminal syndicate which flooded the streets of vulnerable country towns with the drug ice.

Wellington man Kyle Anthony Thompson was arrested in May 2020 after police conducted a major 14-month covert operation known as Strike Force Pinnacle in a bid to smash a major drug syndicate which sourced ice, heroin and MDMA from Sydney and supplied it across regional NSW.

Kyle Anthony Thompson has pleaded guilty to a string of offences. Picture: Facebook

The 35-year-old appeared via audiovisual link from jail to enter pleas to multiple charges in Dubbo Local Court on Thursday.

Thompson pleaded guilty to charges including knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group, knowingly dealing with proceeds of crime, supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, possessing more than three prohibited firearms and corruptly giving or offering an agent a benefit.

A string of other charges were withdrawn.

After Magistrate Gary Wilson accepted Thompson’s pleas he adjourned the case to the District Court at Dubbo for a sentencing date to be set.

Thompson’s case returns to court in December.