Kathy Leigh pleaded guilty to meth possession after police sting busted her Country Road bag stash
A Hampton East grandma caught using a Country Road bag as a drug hideaway during a police sting had previously bought a weapon via a popular e-commerce platform.
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A Hampton East grandma busted hiding meth in a Country Road bag had previously purchased a weapon on popular e-commerce website Wish.com and swindled $65,000 from the Australian Taxation Office, a court has heard..
Kathy Leigh, 61, pleaded guilty in the Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court on April 1 to two counts of meth possession after a police sting on her southeastern suburbs unit.
The court heard a raid on two Hampton East units in January uncovered an array of narcotics, including five cannabis plants, multiple bags of methamphetamines and GHB.
Leigh — who answered the door to investigating officers — was arrested alongside two other men who attempted to flee when they heard police arrive.
The grandmother later admitted ownership of two zip-lock bags of meth hidden inside a County Road bag.
She told cops she owned the cannabis plants found in the backyard and had been “cultivating them for months” in the unit she shared with one of the co-accused men.
On Tuesday, the court was told Leigh had previously scammed $65,000 from the tax office in the 1990s and later purchased an illegal baton on e-commerce platform Wish.com in 2022.
Magistrate Luisa Bazzani fined Leigh $1000 with conviction.
Her co-accused are set to face court at a later date to fight trafficking and possession charges.
