Dealer nabbed with GHB, ice swapped guns for drugs and cash
When a dealer was caught with drugs in her car in Oakleigh South, cops became very interested in what was on her iPad. Incriminating messages revealed her dangerous trade.
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A dealing junkie who was pulled up by cops on a routine patrol with a car full of drugs also had a very incriminating iPad on board.
Inside her vehicle officers not only uncovered a stash of GHB and meth, they also found her tablet device which detailed an offer to a fellow criminal to exchange two long-arm rifles for 2.5g of ice and $200.
Emily Lee Bell was jailed at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court last Friday after earlier pleading guilty to drug trafficking and weapons charges.
The Oakleigh South 28-year-old also admitted possessing ammunition, unlicensed driving and failing to attend court while on bail.
She was also on two community corrections orders at the time.
The court heard a police patrol saw a BMW pull into the Monash Hotel car park in Clayton North about 5am on May 27, 2018.
Bell was driving and there were two others, who were known to police, inside.
When officers searched the car they found 10 gun cartridges, and 251ml of GHB and 4.48g of ice in bags, boxes and bottles.
When officers took a look at her iPad they not only uncovered trafficking messages, but also her guns for drugs and cash deal that had occurred 12 days earlier.
She was also found asleep in a Rowville front yard in April last year with 1.25g of ice in her pocket and had failed to attend court while on bail in May last year.
Bell was arrested and remanded into custody on April 7 this year.
Only one of the guns has been located after it was found in a Hampton Park garage.
Her lawyer said she had done the gun deal because she wanted the weapons out of her house after they were left there by her previous partner when he went into custody.
He said she planned to move to country Victoria when she was released so she could get away from the bad drug culture in Melbourne.
Magistrate Stephen Lee said weapons and illicit substances were “scourges on society”.
“Every day in courts we see the effects of drugs, and dealers are at the heart of that misery,” Mr Lee said.
“The community values its safety, we don’t want to be like the US with its rampant gun culture.
“You had a choice with the guns, you could have gone to police but you chose a different course, it was poor judgment by you.”
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Bell was sentenced to a total of eight months in jail minus 59 days she has served on remand.
When she is released she will have to do a 12-month drug-treatment community corrections order and she was also banned from driving for six months.