Female relative of Bassam Hamzy pleads guilty in court
Shasta Dale has fronted a Sydney court to plead guilty to her role in a heroin supply ring called the City Boys.
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The partner of Bassam Hamzy’s cousin has admitted to her role in a sophisticated heroin supply ring in Sydney called the City Boys.
Shasta Dale, 39, appeared in Downing Centre Local Court wearing a gold necklace with the letters of her name and a big ring on Thursday. She pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying prohibited drugs on an ongoing basis.
Agreed facts state the mother of three was known as “the girl” in the City Boys and acted as a call centre operator from her Picnic Point home, receiving and forwarding thousands of messages to help facilitate the supply of heroin across the city.
Police phone taps revealed that in a 71-day period last year runners for the City Boys were involved in more than 2000 individual street level transactions, including 30 in one day.
Runners delivered heroin in balloons to some of Sydney’s most sought-after suburbs including Coogee and Summer Hill before police smashed the operation.
In August 2019 police secretly watched Dale before arresting her and seizing a phone which had been identified as the device used by the call centre.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Michael Allen asked Dale to stand as he noted she had pleaded guilty to the two charges after a number of other charges were struck out following negotiations.
“I accept your pleas,” he said.
Dale, who is out on bail, was committed for sentence in the Downing Centre District Court and will appear in the higher court on September 25.
Dale is the partner of Khaled Hamzy, whose cousin is the founding member of the gang Brothers 4 Life and is serving life for murder and drug dealing.
Khaled Hamzy has not been charged with anything to do with the alleged City Boys operation.
The court documents state Dale is unemployed, on parenting payments from Centrelink and has three children all under the age of five.
She is known on NSW Police computer systems and is named in 40 event reports and 16 intelligence reports, a police fact sheet shows.
A young childcare worker called Deanna Tuma pleaded guilty last month to being a driver for the City Boys.
She was sentenced to 12 months home detention.