The stories of Sutherland Shire and St George drug dealers
From NRL cheerleaders and teen cocaine dealers to drug dealing grandmas, the St George Shire Standard has unmasked some of southern Sydney’s busiest drug dealers. Here’s what happened when they faced the music.
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From festivals to the streets, and cocaine to GHB, the St George Shire Standard has exposed the drug dealers looking for a quick buck all over Sydney’s south. These are the stories of southern Sydney’s drug dealers and what happened when they were forced to face the music.
JENNIFER SHEWAN
Teen cocaine dealer Jennifer Shewan was running drugs all over Sydney’s most salubrious suburbs until a fateful deal in a Cronulla back alley brought her undone.
A court heard Shewan, 18, said she was wrapped up in the wrong crowd and using drugs herself when she began dealing cocaine in Sydney’s poshest postcodes.
The Picnic Point teen wanted to study criminology or take over the family business building high security for prisons and other government buildings.
Instead, she wound up selling cocaine door to door in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and inner west until police busted her dealing cocaine from the back of her Toyota Yaris in Cronulla on June 6 last year.
She was convicted of prohibited drug supply after pleading guilty and was sentenced to a two-year community corrections order.
JORDAN FINLAYSON
A former Cronulla Sharks cheerleader and Beauty and the Geek contestant traded pompoms for prison greens when she was caught supplying drugs in inner Sydney in 2018.
A court heard Jordan Finlayson, 29, was addicted to drugs when she was caught with 87.7g of GBL, 23.2g of Xanax and 0.8g of cannabis leaf in her car in Rosebery on November 11 2018.
Days later police also found her with 7.1g of cannabis leaf and six Xanax tablets when they raided her Rosebery home.
She was granted bail after pleading guilty to prohibited drug supply but now remains behind bars on remand after she was charged with additional drug supply offences.
DAVID LEFU
A festival drug dealer was slapped with a full-time jail sentence after he was caught peddling pills at one of Sydney’s most notorious and now-defunct hardstyle music festivals.
Sutherland Local Court Magistrate Jayeann Carney sentenced Alfords Point man David Lefu to nine months’ imprisonment in total for prohibited drug supply after he was found with more than 100 pills at the Penrith festival on September 26 last year.
Two red pills stamped with the Defqon. 1 logo were among 126 capsules in Lefu’s possession at the festival where two people tragically died last year.
Lefu told police he knew he was “busted” after a security guard spotted him in the middle of a deal with a man wearing a Bunnings Warehouse straw hat.
“The bag showed a weight of 13.4g and contained 13 smaller, clear resealable bags with purple strips across the top,” the agreed police facts stated.
“In total, there were 126 units of drugs: 74 capsules containing a yellowish crystal-like substance, 46 grey-coloured triangle shaped tablets, two red-coloured Defqon. 1 shaped tablets and four round white tablets with 0.5g embossed into one side.”
RICHARD SEYMOUR
A man caught red-handed with 69 pills and thousands of dollars in cash at a festival after Sydney’s deadly, drug-fuelled summer of live music has said he only dealt drugs to try and fit in with his peers.
Richard Seymour, 22, narrowly avoided jail after he pleaded guilty to two counts of prohibited drug supply and dealing with the proceeds of crime and was sentenced to a 12-month prison term to be served in the community.
Seymour was about to make a deal with a prospective customer when undercover police swooped on him at Touch Bass at Hordern Pavilion in Moore Park on April 21.
After a brief struggle Seymour relinquished his grip on a single clear capsule of grey material and two $50 notes, and a search of his bag uncovered 69 capsules in total and $2335 cash.
TAYLOR ANGELL
A Sydney woman who killed a young gun lawyer while driving high on ice will likely serve her full sentence as she was caught dealing ice months after she got out of prison.
Taylor Angell, 23, was jailed in 2015 for killing 26-year-old Cronulla man Marc Leabeater when she smashed into his motorbike in Sydney’s south in December 2014 and killed him. She was charged with dangerous driving causing death and sentenced to a maximum of five years and nine months in prison.
She had been on parole for less than six months when police found her unconscious in a running car with 29.12g of methamphetamine, $1026.45 in cash and digital scales in a pale pink handbag at her feet.
SCOTT PFEIFFER
A businessman with a $1000 a week cocaine habit and a stolen “keep left” road sign hung on his wall as a souvenir of a particularly wild bender was selling bags to his friends to support his own habit.
Scott Pfeiffer, 49, was charged with prohibited drug supply and possessing stolen goods after a police raid at his Esplanade apartment in Cronulla on October 19.
Magistrate Michael Love at Sutherland Local Court said the freight sales manager confessed to dealing cocaine to his friends after police found 1.57g of the drug in his unit.
Pfeiffer pleaded guilty to prohibited drug supply and was sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order.
LORETTA ROBINSON
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.
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 in March.