Danny Watfa: Police have 100k recordings in alleged drug case
A Yagoona man facing life in jail if convicted on serious drugs charges is in a desperate wait for a laptop in prison to listen to 100,000 covert recordings made by police.
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An alleged western Sydney drug dealer remains behind bars with police turning over close to 100,000 covert recordings that brought down the alleged operation.
Danny Watfa’s lawyer Abbas Soukie told Burwood Local Court on Tuesday the 26-year-old would make a bail application next week after the massive case against him dragged out.
Watfa, the court heard, has been in jail on remand for almost a year and has only just been granted permission to have a laptop behind bars.
However, his lawyer told the court corrections have flagged that could be months away because the department was considering buying one from overseas.
Watfa reportedly needs the laptop before the case can progress to go through and listen to about 100,000 covert recordings police have obtained in their case against him.
“I don’t know why they are shipping it from overseas when someone can just go down to JB-HiFi,” Mr Soukie said.
“It could be a few months or at least several weeks before he can give instructions.”
Watfa was arrested in a singlet in his driveway last December when police tightened the noose on an alleged drug operation he was allegedly behind.
Police swarmed on him as he exited his Toyota Corolla outside a Yagoona home where they later allegedly found cocaine, cannabis, $7000 in cash, 10 extendible batons and a gel blaster.
Later that day they also arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the sting where they located 28 bags of cocaine weighing about 18 grams.
He was charged with 33 offences at the time including several drug related and weapons matters among a litany of dealing with proceeds of crime charges.
If convicted on supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs, Watfa faces a potential punishment of a life sentence in prison.
His case will return to Burwood Local Court next week.
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