Kylie Lee Van Acker, Nicholas Townsend sentenced for psychedelic drug charges in Port Macquarie court
A woman who took to TikTok to share court updates with her 30k followers has been sentenced for manufacturing massive amounts of the ingredient found in magic mushrooms.
A woman who took to TikTok to share court updates with her 30k followers has been sentenced for manufacturing massive amounts of the ingredient found in magic mushrooms.
Port Macquarie woman Kylie Lee Van Acker, who goes by MrsAussieK on the platform, has shared regular updates about her court battle.
In one video, which notched up more than 7000 views, she dances to Run DMC’s ‘It’s Like That’ with the caption “Why people that (sic) use mushrooms for mental health get jailtime”.
In the video, she used the hashtag ‘crashoutdaily’ and in another ‘youregonnabeok’.
Van Acker and co-accused Nicholas Gerard Townsend, 44, were sentenced in Port Macquarie District Court this week for the various drugs and firearms charges.
Van Acker, 51, spent about two months remanded in custody following her arrest in August this year before being granted strict conditional bail in October.
Meanwhile Townsend remained bail-refused and remanded in custody.
On August 6 last year police from the Coffs Harbour Region Enforcement Squad – assisted by the Mid North Coast Police District – executed a search warrant at a property on Bourne St at Port Macquarie.
During the search, police located and seized several items of interest including psilocybin, steroids, a firearm, ammunition and drug-related paraphernalia.
Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic compound found in certain types of psychoactive mushrooms, commonly referred to as ‘magic mushrooms’.
Now, after entering guilty pleas the pair has been sentenced.
Van Acker pleaded guilty to manufacturing greater than a large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs and possessing an unauthorised pistol.
Van Acker was sentenced to a term of imprisonment, to be served in the community by way of an intensive corrections order to be of good behaviour and abstain from drugs.
The order extends from December 9 to July 23, 2027.
Townsend pleaded guilty to manufacturing greater than a large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs and taking part in the manufacture of a prohibited drug (greater than a small amount but less than an indictable quantity).
Two charges of possessing a prohibited drug were withdrawn.
Townsend was given a 31-month jail sentence with a 16-month non-parole period meaning he will first be eligible for release on December 24 this year.
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