Waleed Al Jumaili, 23, of Casula, convicted after 23 bags of ‘coke’ discovered in a woman’s undies
A ‘plastic rustling sound’ coming from a woman’s undies led to the discovery of 23 bags of cocaine and the conviction of a ‘dial-a-dealer’ drug supplier on the northern beaches.
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A man, whose female companion had 23 bags of cocaine stuffed down her undies, has been convicted for supplying “dial-a-dealer’ drugs on the northern beaches.
Waleed Al-Jumaili, 23, of Casula, was arrested after he sold a small bag of cocaine from his car to a customer in the heart of Manly on a Friday night.
When police later searched the woman he was in the car with on March 10, they discovered the drug bags in the underwear she was wearing underneath a one-piece swimsuit.
Al-Jumaili, an unemployed form worker who fled war-torn Iraq with his family as a child refugee, told police he resorted to selling drugs because he was broke and wanted to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring.
He pleaded guilty to one count each of supply a prohibited drug less than a commercial amount and; deal in the property proceeds of crime as well as two counts of possessing a prohibited drug.
Before the drugs were found, Al-Jumaili told police the pair had been to Manly to go to the beach.
But the court heard on Thursday that when police found $750 in cash in the car, Al-Jumaili said he was selling the coke for $250 a bag and that he had already sold three bags that night.
In a facts sheet tendered to court, police stated they saw Al-Jumaili doing “loops” in his car around Manly.
When he stopped near the corner of Whistler and Raglan streets, they saw a female enter the back seat of the car and leave 30 seconds later.
Officers stopped her on The Corso where a search revealed a small bag of cocaine.
A short time later Al-Jumaili’s car was stopped on Oliver St, Freshwater.
During an initial search police found an ecstasy tablet in his wallet and a small amount of cannabis in the car.
His female companion was also searched in the back of a police van.
“When requested she remove her swimsuit, police heard a plastic rustling sound come from her underwear,” the facts sheet said.
Police found the 22 small resealable plastic bags of white powder in her underwear.
The woman told police: “I don’t know what it is, he just gave it to me”.
Al-Jumaili then said he was “low on money” and was “saving up for an engagement ring” and that he was selling the drugs for an “unknown associate”. He said he only received a portion of the cocaine sale proceeds.
When questioned at Manly police station he “made full admissions to the sale of prohibited drugs including the details and logistics of the supply chain”, the facts sheet stated.
His solicitor told Magistrate Robert Williams that his client’s assistance to police should be taken into account during sentencing.
In a letter of apology to the court Al-Jumaili wrote that he “deeply regretted the … pain its caused the community that had accepted me”.
“I couldn’t be more ashamed of myself for committing my crimes in a country that has given me a better life.”
The letter stated that his father had run out on the family in Iraq.
“I turned to drugs from a young age. It helped me forget and manage the unbearable emotional toll.”
Magistrate Williams told him that “there’s really no excuse in relation to this type of offending”.
Al-Jumaili was handed a Community Correction Order to be of good behaviour for 18 months for supplying the cocaine and fined a total of $2700.
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