Colby Campbell: Illawarra dad admits delivering MDMA pills to ‘drug syndicate’
An Illawarra father has admitted to delivering MDMA pills to the heads of a ‘party drug syndicate’ following a major police investigation.
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An Illawarra father-of-two has admitted to commercial drug supply, after he was captured on CCTV delivering more than 4000 MDMA pills to the alleged principals of a party drug syndicate.
Colby Campbell faced Wollongong Local Court via audiovisual link from prison on Wednesday, where he pleaded guilty to one count of supply large commercial quantity of prohibited drug.
The young dad was arrested in sweeping raids across the Illawarra last August, after a major investigation uncovered an alleged drug syndicate responsible for the sale of party drugs across the south coast, including cocaine and MDMA.
Detectives spent months investigating the syndicate using physical surveillance and phone taps, with police alleging two burly redhead twins from Consiton, Flynn and Joel Westman were the heads of the operation.
Police allege the Westman twins had several “runners” in the alleged syndicate, one being Campbell.
At the time of the investigation, Campbell’s sister Nikita was the girlfriend of Joel Westman, and assisted in the day-to-day operations of the alleged syndicate.
On Wednesday, Campbell admitted he had participated in the alleged syndicate, with court documents revealing he had been captured on police surveillance several times as he delivered and collected drugs for the purpose of supply.
The court heard on one occasion in July 2019, Campbell and two other men sold a huge haul of party drugs to a female police witness at KFC Unanderra.
According to the documents, Campbell and his associates supplied the woman with 27.8 grams of coke and 98 grams of MDMA, which cost a total of $12,500.
Two weeks later, police watched on as Campbell entered a home known to investigators with a clear plastic bag “containing a brown coloured product which was wrapped in a fluoro orange shirt”.
Once inside the property, he told the occupants “there is some missing but there’s more than four,” according to court documents. “They’re good and they are euros”.
Police surveillance captured the moments after, as Campbell and his associates unwrapped the shirt and divvied up 4,200 “euro” MDMA pills into bags of 100.
Court documents reveal the pills were to be sold for a price of $30 each.
The Westman twins were arrested in dramatic raids on their home with Nikita on August 16.
The twins were each charged with 26 drug supply offences which they are yet to enter pleas to, while Nikita was charged with three counts of drug supply and one count of participating in a criminal group. She admitted to the charges earlier this year and was sentenced to seven months jail in August. She has since lodged an appeal and is on bail.
Campbell was arrested on August 17 and has remained on remand in custody since.
He will face the NSW District Court for sentencing at a date to be fixed next month.