Listed: Qld people busted for street-level drug dealing since 2024
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Street level drug dealers continue to be a burden on communities, as these cases prove.
Dealers operating at street-level are continuing their activities across Queensland.
See the list of some street-level drug dealers who have fronted court >>>
Dealer had at least 24 customers
A street-level meth dealer who turned over more than $25,000 of product in the Far North has been sentenced to a suspended prison term and probation for trafficking drugs.
Tully woman Stacey Jane Cifuentes, 42, pleaded guilty in Cairns Supreme Court in May 2025 to eight charges, including trafficking dangerous drugs between April 2023 and October 2023, supplying, possessing and producing a dangerous drug, and possessing things used in the connection of a drug offence in 2023.
Crown prosecutor Tegan Grasso told the court Cifuentes had at least 24 customers and would use coded language to execute deals.
Justice James Henry sentenced her to three-and -a-half years’ prison, suspended immediately for three-and-a-half years to take into account the 203 days she spent in custody, and also sentenced her to two years’ probation.
Fall from grace of Qld doctor jailed over bikie drug deals
A once well-respected Queensland doctor who trafficked prescription drugs to one of Australia’ most feared bikie gangs out of his Brisbane clinic, sometimes in garbage bags, was ordering more valium-type drugs than hospitals, a court heard in April 2025.
Prosecutors said Dr John Robert Ullman used his otherwise legitimate Chermside medical practice as a front to traffic benzodiazepines and other schedule 2 prescription drugs predominantly to members of the Comancheros for two years and nine months beginning in 2018.
His offending came to light when police targeted the Comancheros and undercover cops were sent to the clinic where Ullman sold them drugs on two occasions, the court heard.
Ullman was sentenced to 6.5 years jail with a parole eligibility date of July 5 2028.
Mum’s homemade meth lab
Mother-of-two Courtney Jade Mueller was in June 2024 found guilty of running a meth laboratory and storing multiple stolen vehicles at her home.
She faced more than 50 charges in Ipswich Magistrates Court, including 23 counts of unlawful possession of motor vehicles with the intention to deprive and four counts of buying or possessing S4 or S8 medicines or hazardous poisons.
The court heard police raided her home for an unrelated matter and discovered an active drug production laboratory alongside four stolen cars.
She also drove recklessly in a stolen Toyota Aurion that involved driving on the wrong side of road, running a red light and narrowly avoiding hitting oncoming traffic.
Mueller was sentenced to two years’ probation and was disqualified from holding a driver’s licence for six months after being considered as having good prospects for rehabilitation.
Prisoner busted selling drugs behind bars
A prisoner who had just been let out on parole, went straight back in after police conducted a search warrant of his home the day he got out of jail and found evidence of his involvement in a major drug enterprise.
Cody Liam Saran appeared in Townsville District Court in June 2024 via video link where the details of his involvement in drug trafficking from jail were revealed.
Crown prosecutor Patrick Newman said between August 19 and November 22 in 2022, the 26-year-old assisted a principal offender in trafficking the drug buprenorphine to other inmates.
Saran pleaded guilty to trafficking drugs and possessing drugs.
He was sentenced to two and a half years’ jail with a parole eligibility date of August 29.
Woman found guilty of trafficking to 45 customers
Ashleigh Margaret Hamerton in May 2024 pleaded guilty to trafficking drugs to 45 customers, bringing in $46,500.
She pleaded guilty to one count each of drug trafficking and possessing dangerous drugs exceeding two grams in Bundaberg Supreme Court on May 1.
The court heard police raided her Burnett Heads home, finding more than 7g pure methamphetamines along with scales, clip seal bags and a mobile phone belonging to her.
Police concluded that she trafficked drugs at a street level in 160 transactions over eight months upon gaining access to the phone and her bank records.
She was sentenced to six years’ jail with an eligibility for parole in nine months.
Dad’s covert drug dealing business
Kunda Park father Oskar Bernard Birkmann operated a covert drug dealing business and grew operations for years until a targeted raid brought his offending to a halt.
His offences were uncovered after police searched a rented industrial property in 2023.
In September 2024 he faced multiple charges in Maroochydore District Court including four counts of trafficking dangerous drug.
The court heard he had incriminating messages on his phone and began selling “street level” marijuana to a single customer from 2017.
He had 20 customers who he was supplying with varying amounts daily before he was busted by police.
Police also found a hydroponic growing system at his home to cultivate marijuana, along with about 2kg of harvested cannabis.
The court was told he had a prejudicial childhood however had no prior convictions.
Birkmann was sentenced to three years’ jail with immediate parole.
Man sentenced after meth bust in Bunnings ute
Phone calls between an alleged drug supplier and courier revealed the difficulty the driver had in renting a car before commencing a drug drop from Cairns to Townsville, which ultimately saw the driver intercepted in a Bunnings-hired ute.
Paul Ivano Kuliani was intercepted by police in Yabulu after he travelled to FNQ to retrieve a kilogram package found by police in the footwell of the passenger seat, and had in it 716g of methamphetamine inside, with a purity of 73 per cent.
Crown prosecutor Andrew Walklate told the court on March 30, 2023 the now 49-year-old father was arrested for possessing the package of drugs so big it couldn’t fit in the glove box of the ute.
Kuliani pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing drugs.
In May 2025 he was sentenced to six years jail and given a parole eligibility date of November 5, 2026. His Honour declared the 63 days he spent in pre-sentence custody as time already served and a serious drug offence certificate was ordered.
Young woman avoids jail over drug sales
A meth-trafficking mum in November 2024 learned she will not have to go back to jail after a supreme court judge agreed it would undo all her rehabilitative efforts.
Sam Hennessy had been peddling methylamphetamines to 13 customers for just more than one month between December 2021 and February 2022 in South Mackay.
Crown prosecutor Tiffany Lawrence said this marked a significant escalation in her criminal conduct given her criminal history.
Mackay Supreme Court heard then 27, she ran a wholesale trafficking business, supplying meth 23 times in quantities from one gram to a half ball with the price ranging from $400 to $800.
Hennessy, now 30, pleaded guilty to trafficking.
She was jailed for 3.5 years, suspended after the 80 days which was declared as time already served.
The suspended sentence will hang over her head for four years. A conviction was recorded.
Rocky mother busted supplying drugs
Mother of a toddler left on a childcare bus for six hours Sheridan Paige Millar was in March 2025 busted for drug trafficking in an operation targeted at her de facto partner.
She faced a string of charges which included 79 counts of supplying dangerous drugs and one count of drug trafficking.
Rockhampton’s Millar was the mother of the three-year-old girl who had been left on a bus outside a daycare centre before her limp body was discovered still strapped inside in May 2022. No charges were laid over the incident.
The court heard Millar organised five supplies of methamphetamine through her partner and arranged herself to carry out two supplies during a period of four weeks.
The court was told that she was the sole carer of four children after separation from their father.
Millar also claimed she no longer used drugs but was unable to afford a drug test for proof.
She was sentenced to one-and-a-half years jail, with a parole release on June 19.
Guilty plea after drugs found in bags
Jorgia Morgan Rook was busted with suspected drugs in her car with clip-seal bags and a knife.
The former Hinchinbrook Shire socialite was charged with supplying and possessing methamphetamines, possessing cannabis, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of items used in commission of supplying a dangerous drug.
She pleaded guilty in June 2024 at Townsville District Court with her baby boy in her arms.
The court heard her vehicle was intercepted and searched after a random breath test.
The test result was negative, but police discovered bags of 2g cannabis and 0.1g methamphetamines in her handbag, a knife and two mobile phones, digital scales, clip-seal bags, straws, glass pipes and two mobile phones in her car.
Police said she had supplied drugs on five occasions over Facebook Messenger.
She was sentenced to six months’ jail, and was paroled immediately.
Dealer’s tears as ‘extensive sale’ of steroids ends with jail
An aspiring body builder busted with more than a kilogram of steroids thought his body goals simply were not possible without illegal enhancements, a court heard in March 2025.
Syed Nadeem Shaw, 61, imported steroids for 22 months between 2020 and 2022, including quantities of testosterone and nandrolone.
He was attracted to the idea of using steroids after becoming increasingly interested in body building through magazines and “learnt it isn’t possible without steroids,” Brisbane’s Supreme Court heard.
Police later searched the man’s home and found 1.4kg of illegal substances, including 80 vials of liquid growth hormones.
He pleaded guilty to three counts, including trafficking in dangerous drugs, possession of dangerous drugs, and possession of dangerous drugs exceeding 50 grams.
Shaw wiped tears from his eyes as he was sentenced to four years six months in prison, suspended after 10 months.
Drug trafficker ‘caught in the act’ with 2kg meth shipment
A convicted fraudster working for a wholesale drug trafficking operation was “caught in the act” with his hand still inside a bag of meth when police tracked a large drug shipment to his apartment.
A court in February 2025 heard how Awais Ibad Ali, 37, turned to trafficking drugs for a large-scale operation when he struggled to find a job on parole.
Ali fronted Brisbane Supreme Court, where he pleaded guilty to a number of offences including drug trafficking and two counts of possessing schedule 1 dangerous drugs in excess of 200g.
The court heard Ali had worked for alleged drug boss Ben Thornton for a six-and-a-half month period from October 2020 to May 2021.
Ali was sentenced to eight years in jail, with parole eligibility on August 14, 2026.
Man pleads guilty to producing drugs
Trent Nathan Laing appeared in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on July 2, 2024, and pleaded guilty to seven charges including producing and possessing drugs.
Police prosecutor Stu Lydford told the court Laing had been found in possession of 300g of cannabis, magic mushrooms and LSD tabs as well as a hydroponic set-up to grow cannabis plants on March 12.
Defence barrister Peter Slipper told the court the production of the drug had no commercial intent behind it.
Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist fined him $1200 and a conviction was recorded.
Laing pleaded guilty to one count of producing drugs, three of possessing drugs, one of possessing anything used in connection of a drug crime, one of possessing drug utensils and one of possessing firecrackers.
Originally published as Listed: Qld people busted for street-level drug dealing since 2024
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