Madyson Brooks: Bail for alleged member of festival drug ring
An alleged member of a drug ring which supplied music festival goers with acid, MDMA and GBL has been warned by a magistrate to expect to feel the force of the law.
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An alleged member of a drug ring which supplied music festival goers with acid, MDMA and GBL has been warned “jail is on the cards” in court on Monday.
Madyson Brooks, dressed in a yellow hospital frock, blue face mask and gloves, appeared by videolink in Campbelltown Local Court as she made a bid for bail 24 days since her arrest at her Leumeah home.
Police have charged the 23-year-old with drug supply and being a member of an illegal drug syndicate, which has seen nine people arrested following raids at properties in Leumeah, Cabramatta, Campsie, Berala, Fairfield and Macquarie Park earlier this month.
Brooks was arrested alongside the accused leader of the alleged drug ring James Calleja, 34. In Brooks’ Facebook profile, in the name of Raven Parker, she is listed as being in a relationship with Calleja.
The police prosecutor opposed bail for the Leumeah woman, airing fears the unemployed 23-year-old would return to her alleged drug dealing in a bid to make ends meet.
Brooks’ Legal Aid lawyer said, if the allegations were founded, the Leumeah woman was only a “small cog in the wheel” and that she wasn’t receiving medication in jail for her ailments, including chronic fatigue and bipolar-related conditions.
She was granted conditional bail by Magistrate Shane McAnulty who warned her jail was a real option in light of the “serious charges” she was facing.
“If you are involved in the drug dealing to young people, or old people, at music festivals or otherwise, you are putting a lot of people at risk,” he said.
“Even with a limited (criminal) record, jail is clearly on the cards.”
The matter will return to the same court on June 9.