Rylee Park jailed at Bendigo Magistrates’ Court for trafficking GHB and meth

A wannabe Gisborne nurse with ties to outlaw bikies has been busted with $30,000 of GHB and meth strapped to her body and under the hood of her car.

Rylee Park was jailed for 10 months for trafficking GHB.

A wannabe Gisborne nurse with ties to outlaw bikies who was “part of a larger criminal enterprise” has been busted with $30,000 worth of GHB and meth strapped to her body and under the hood of her car.

Rylee Park was jailed for 10 months at Bendigo Magistrates’ Court for trafficking meth and GHB with a street value of $30,000 in Gisborne and Kerang.

When she was arrested at a petrol station in Kerang on December 2, 2023 police found the drugs strapped to her body and stashed in the bonnet of the black Mitsubishi Eclipse she was driving.

Police also found in a cream purse a “crack pipe”, drug scales, deal bags, measuring implements, and $1142 in suspected to be the proceeds of crime.

When police raided her Gisborne home the next day they seized a taser and imitation firearm that “looks very real” and if it was “pointed at someone they wouldn’t know it was fake”.

Police also found “tick sheets” showing she had made about $19,500 from drug sales.

Park was arrested with $30,000 worth of meth and GHB.

Park’s lawyer said the drug dealer was “engaged in drug trafficking activity” as the “middleman” as part of a “larger criminal enterprise” to support her own drug addictions.

When she was arrested, Park told police the drugs were for personal use, before later admitting to the trafficking.

Magistrate Sharon McRae said “there is no doubt she is participating in a fairly organised … trafficking set up”.

“It’s strapped to her body, she absolutely knows what is going on,” Ms McRae said.

The court heard Park’s life “spiralled out of control” after a home invasion in 2022 where she and her then husband were threatened with guns.

She then “dabbled in drugs as a coping mechanism” before her marriage fell apart, and attempted suicide by drug overdose in July 2022.

Park had previously been charged with trafficking meth.

Park got tangled up in the drug trade after moving in with her cousin, who “introduced her to drug dealing”, her lawyer said.

The court heard her cousin had since been arrested and remanded in custody on drug dealing charges.

Park had served 88 days in custody where she had time to “reflect on her life”.

Parks’ lawyer said the drug dealer had previously trained as a personal trainer and was studying to become a nurse before falling on the wrong side of the law.

“In the background of your nursing training, this seems at odds in what you were interested in before you got caught up in drugs,” Ms McRae said.

The court heard Park was sentenced to a community corrections without conviction order for trafficking meth and GHB by Ms McRae in 2021.

“I’m really disappointed … at that time I gave you every opportunity. Normally drug traffickers go to jail,” she said.

“On that occasion I didn’t send you to jail because I was pretty sure that you were going to be able to pull things together.”

Ms McRae said drug trafficking had an “absolutely shocking” impact on the community.

“Whole parts of the community are devastated forever, because their child, or family member or friend has died either from drugs or some complication from drug taking,” she said.

“If you want to take drugs and wreck your life that’s your choice and you can do that. But when you’re trafficking drugs you’re wrecking everyone elses life you come in contact with.”

Park was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison, with 88 days reckoned as time served.

Ms McRae said if Park hadn’t pleaded guilty, she would have been jailed for 14 months.