Breeanna Chie smuggled drugs into Goulburn Supermax in balloon
A glam mum’s jailhouse visit to Goulburn Supermax was an innocent show of companionship to the untrained eye. But the 31-year-old had ulterior motives, notably to smuggle in a balloon stuffed with drugs inside her ripped jeans.
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A glam mum’s jailhouse visit to Goulburn Supermax nearly saw her thrown behind bars after being busted smuggling in 45 bupe strips, or ‘jail currency’, inside a purple balloon.
Breeanna Chie, 31, visited violent criminal Lloyd Murrell face-to-face at the maximum security prison last October.
Murrell, who had a murder charge over the 2011 killing of crime figure Saso Ristevski dropped last year, is currently serving a 17 year jail sentence for a string of armed robberies in Victoria.
Police facts reveal the pair were having a chat when Murrell grabbed something from Chie’s ripped jeans.
The jailbird appeared to “swirl the object around in his fingers” and stretched his arms behind his head, court documents state.
After the prison catch-up, corrective officers found a purple balloon filled with 45 strips of bupe near where they were sitting.
Bupe, a powerful opioid prescribed to replace heroin, is distributed through prisons on paper thin strips and either placed on the tongue, smoked or injected.
Chie, of Albion Park Rail, pleaded guilty to unlawfully bringing in anything to a place of detention.
“This type of items is a currency in jail,” Magistrate Jennifer Price said. “Why put yourself in this position when you have so many considerations, such as your children.”
Chie was convicted and placed on a 12-month community correction order to be of good behaviour.