Deborah Adamson jailed over role in southwestern Sydney drug syndicate

A drug dealing grandmother whose syndicate sold more than $420,000 of ice across the city’s southwest is now behind bars.

A drug dealing grandmother whose syndicate sold more than $420,000 of ice across the city’s southwest is now behind bars, despite bragging she would get away with it “again”.

Deborah Adamson, 60, last month pleaded guilty to one count of participating in a criminal group over her role in the drug syndicate that operated across Liverpool, Bossley Park, Heckenberg and Bonnyrigg.

Online Deborah Adamson appeared to be a doting grandmother. Picture: Facebook

The blonde-haired grandmother who police claim has links to the Hells Angels bikie gang was jailed for 21 months.

But court documents reveal that sentence likely came as a surprise to arrogant Adamson, who when asked by a friend about her drug dealing told her “don’t worry”, saying if she was caught: “I’ll just get (put on the) MERIT (treatment program) again”.

She has been jailed for 21 months for her role in a drug syndicate. Picture: Facebook

Police witnessed Adamson running a “drug house” with customers regularly visiting her home unit.

Over the space of a year between 2020 and February 2021, the drug syndicate she was involved in supplied ice an estimated 5,600 times.

In total, the street value of the drugs they sold was $420,000.

While on Facebook she painted herself as a doting grandmother, court documents state Adamson’s crimes were at times carried out “in the presence of a person under 18”.

In the overall scheme of the syndicate Adamson is described by police as being a low level “runner”.

She and others involved would report to the syndicate’s “upline” suppliers who gave them the amount of ice they needed to carry out their drug deals.

Adamson would then play the role of the middle woman for the syndicate’s higher ranking individuals and “on sell” the drugs to buyers in the community.

“The group‘s ‘upline’ supplier … would choose not to meet the persons that Adamson … ‘on sold’ smaller amounts of methamphetamine to, but rather chose to remain in the background, a ‘level’ above, facilitating the flow of methamphetamine into the community,” court documents explained.

A certain amount of cash from the deal was paid back to the “upline” supplier in cash or via a bank transfer.

Adamson lived in this unit block on North Liverpool Rd, Heckenberg, where police alleged she ran a drug house.

But the first cracks appeared in the drug syndicate in June 2020, around the time NSW Police established Strike Force Ethne to investigate the supply of ice.

Adamson was stopped and searched by police who found 1.79g of methamphetamine in her possession.

On November 18, 2020, police again struck, pulling over Adamson and finding 3.5g of methamphetamine in her hand.

In intercepted conversations that followed, Adamson was told by her “upline” supplier: “ … see, you got to be careful”.

But even when officers attached to the Criminal Groups Squad and Strike Force Ethne swooped on the man who had been supplying her drugs, court documents state Adamson found a new “upline” supplier and continued to sell ice.

The grandmother’s crimes caught up with her just after 10am on March 9 when she was arrested by officers after appearing at Liverpool Local Court for other matters.

After pleading guilty last month Adamson was jailed until at least January 8, 2022.