Lesley Hawkins charged with supplying drugs to South Nowra jail inmate
A firearm and several drugs were seized at a woman’s western Sydney home before she was charged with supplying drugs to a prison inmate via a jail employee on the South Coast.
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Westmead woman Lesley Hawkins has been the third person charged with allegedly supplying drugs to a Corrective Services NSW officer who passed them on to an inmate at a South Coast jail.
Hawkins, 29, was charged after police raided her home on the Great Western Highway on Thursday and seized a firearm, the drug ice, heroin, buprenorphine strips, drug paraphernalia, a replica firearm, and ammunition.
She was charged with five counts of supplying prohibited drugs, possess prohibited drugs, participating in a criminal group, possessing an unauthorised pistol, possessing ammunition and breaching bail.
She was refused bail and fronted Parramatta Local Court via video link on Friday after her alleged role in supplying prohibited drugs into the South Coast Correctional Centre at South Nowra.
Papers tendered to the court said Hawkins was charged with supplying 31.5g of methylamphetamine between March 27 and April 23 at the prison.
She was charged with supplying 33g of the same drug at Greenacre on April 12 and April 15, and supplying 4g of heroine and 15g of buprenorphine at the same suburb and time.
She was also charged with supplying 50 strips of buprenorphine at Westmead on April 23.
Police found 280g of cannabis when they searched her home this week and also seized a Gel Blaster Pistol CS-007, for which she allegedly failed to hold a licence and ammunition.
The papers state she was charged with participating in a criminal group from March 23 to April 16 when she allegedly supplied drugs, made and received payments into contraband at the South Nowra jail.
Hawkins was charged under Strike Force Draymar, which formed to investigate reports of a Corrective Services employee’s corrupt activity.
A 50-year-old man a 32-year-old woman have been charged as part of the investigation and remain before the courts.
Hawkins is due to return to Parramatta Local Court on May 14.
Investigations under Strike Force Draymar are ongoing.