Loretta Robinson pleads guilty to drug supply and running drug den
A drug-dealing grandmother was running a drug den inside her Sydney housing commission home, storing cannabis in dog food bags in the pantry and keeping a handwritten list of customers in her bedroom.
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A drug-dealing grandma with a long and sordid criminal history used her Department of Housing home as a local drug den, concealing her weed stash inside dog food bags in the kitchen pantry.
Loretta Robinson, 68, was charged with prohibited drug supply and running a drug premises at her Hurstville home in 2018 following a St George police investigation into local drug supply.
The illicit operation was uncovered when police raided the modest brick cottage on Lyle St on October 11, 2018 and found hundreds of grams of cannabis inside bags of Baxter’s dog food.
“Investigators seized 42 items which included 454g of cannabis in a red dog food bag in the kitchen pantry, 482g of cannabis in a yellow dog food box, and $1150 of Australian currency within clothing inside drawers in her bedroom,” police facts stated.
“(Police also found) $454 in Australian currency, 0.19g of MDMA, a handwritten ledger with a list of names and deal amounts, 4g of cannabis in a black container, 15g of cannabis in individual foils, $205 in the accused’s wallet, a CCTV hard drive, 1.3g of methylamphetamine, two MDMA pills and a Valium.”
Police also uncovered Robinson dobbing herself in on camera as she divvied up drugs for another male’s individual use and for them to sell on to customers.
“(On the recording) a female voice stated words to the effect of ‘there’s some for you and some for you to sell’,” police facts stated.
“At the end of the recording the camera is angled towards the accused, showing her face.”
Robinson pleaded guilty to prohibited drug supply, prohibited drug possession, dealing with the proceeds of crime and allowing her home to be used as a drug premises.
She will be sentenced at Sutherland Local Court on March 2.
Robinson, who also sometimes goes by Lorraine, has a colourful criminal history dating back to October 1987 when she was fined $50 over a stealing incident.
The animal-loving grandma spent 11 months behind bars after she was charged with prohibited drug supply in Sydney in January 2004.
Robinson then received a nine-year prison sentence with a non-parole period of four years and six months after she was charged with commercial prohibited drug supply in Goulburn in August 2007.
In December 2013 she was jailed again for prohibited drug supply, spending 13 months of an 18-month sentence in prison.
She was also fined $300 for drug driving and disqualified for three months in April 2019.
Robinson has been in prison on remand since September 2019 as she awaits trial for new and unrelated drug supply charges.
