Jayson Harker pleaded guilty to commercial quantity of drug supply from shipping container

A Jewells man had a ‘party drug’ operation running from his shipping container house, before police got wind of it.

In a shipping container on the front lawn of his uncle’s house, Jayson Harker was running a suburban “party drug” operation.

Weighing, packing and selling, Harker was dealing drugs from his Ntaba Rd residence at Jewells in November 2019, according to police facts.

But Lake Macquarie detectives had eyes on him, before the whole operation was ultimately foiled when he was pulled over by police.

On November 9, Harker was stopped on the Pacific Highway shortly after leaving home, avoiding eye contact, shaking and stuttering as police talked to him, according to police facts.

Jayson Harker pleaded guilty to drug supply after he was dealing drugs out of a shipping container he was living in, in Jewells. Picture Amy Ziniak

A search of his vehicle uncovered a glass vial containing nine grams of the party drug GHB.

“Oh yeah the Windex, my mate told me it was Windex,” he said to police.

They also uncovered a set of scales, a leather bound book, mobile phone and almost 14 grams of meth.

“Oh this is a joke, am I being loaded or something. I’m just trying to remember who was in the car last,” he said to police stated in police facts.

But it was just the tip of the iceberg. The next day detectives raided a shipping container Harker lived in and found a haul of drugs.

More than 200 grams of MDMA as well as MDMA capsules, more than 150 grams of meth and almost 250 grams of cannabis leaf were discovered in small plastic containers or resealable bags.

Police facts detailed there were also quantities of the psychedelic drug DMT, designer drug 2—FDCK - similar to Ketamine - LSD and cocaine.

$37,000 in cash was also found in a black pencil case in $50 and $100 notes, an ‘Anko’ brand heat sealer machine, a drug ledger on cardboard, a ‘Kogan’ cash counter and 20 rounds of ammunition.

Harker wasn’t there at the time of the raid and was arrested the next day at Belmont Police Station.

In Newcastle District Court last week he pleaded guilty to six drug supply charges and unauthorised possession of a pistol gel blaster.

The court heard Harker currently resided in residential rehabilitation, as part of his bail, after being granted Supreme Court bail to do the program.

But despite ending in a month’s time, and having entered guilty pleas, the Crown did not oppose further bail conditions to remain in the community until his sentence in June.