Alleged dial-a-dealer Feda Merhi fronts court over Bondi cocaine bust
From corporate high-flyers to career criminals, it was considered the biggest operation against Sydney’s cocaine dealers. Now one glamorous 30-year-old could face jail time over her role in the dial-a-dealer ring.
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A glamorous Guildford woman will accept a plea offer from NSW Police after being busted in one of the biggest crackdowns on cocaine dealers in the eastern suburbs earlier this year.
Feda Merhi, 30, has flagged that she will plead guilty at her next court appearance after she was charged with two counts of supplying cocaine, possessing cannabis and $22,070 alleged to be the proceeds of drugs sales.
She was nabbed along with corporate high-flyers to career criminals caught up in Operation Northrop in May, which saw 55 people arrested in the suburbs of Bondi, Coogee and Paddington.
Dubbed “dial-a-dealers”, the horde of those charged set upon the eastern suburbs to target cashed-up consumers with a high demand for cocaine in Sydney’s most notorious night-life strips.
Officers had simply stood on the streets and watched the alleged deals go down before arresting both the dealers and drugs users during the operation over a few weekends.
Contacts on the phones of alleged dealers were then greeted with a text which read: “your phone number has been located in a cocaine investigation. If you have any information in relation to this please contact (police) or CrimeStoppers”.
“There has been a plea offer set forward and she will plead to some charges,” Merhi’s lawyer Elias Kyriacou told the Downing Centre Local Court this morning.
In June, Merhi and co-accused Laila Elali were allowed to head out on a girls vacation to Bali, lapping up the sun, sand and adventure while on bail for serious drug matters.
Northrop’s officer in charge was not supportive of the move, despite the pair both putting up a $5000 surety with the court.
Police will allege Merhi and Elali were selling the drugs in Bondi on May 11.
It is alleged they then found thousands of dollars in envelopes hidden in the glove box and boot of their white Kia on Bondi Rd.
Elali, 26, is due to front the Waverley Local Court on November 20 while Merhi will return to the Downing Centre Local Court on November 14.
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