Judge to Skye Crystal Maas: ‘You’re very much a hardened drug dealer’

The woman had trafficked methylamphetamine across Toowoomba for more than three months to 20 “customers”.

The judge was scathing in his condemnation of the woman drug dealer.

A 31-YEAR-OLD Toowoomba woman described by a Supreme Court judge as “very much a hardened drug dealer” has been jailed for trafficking methylamphetamine.

Skye Crystal Maas had been found with 12.4g of substance of which 9.346g of found to be pure meth after a police search of her then Gowrie Mountain home on July 25, 2019.

Also found were a small amount of cannabis, pipes for smoking it, scales for weighing drug and used syringes including two which were loaded with meth, Toowoomba Supreme Court heard.

Crown prosecutor Matt Le Grand told the court Maas had been on parole for similar offending at the time.

While on bail for those matters, Maas had been picked up during a police operation targeting drug trafficking in the Toowoomba region.

During a search of her then Highfields home in November 2019, police seized her mobile phone which, when downloaded, showed she had been trafficking meth from November 2019 to March 2020.

Mr Le Grand said during that three month and three week period, Maas had made 22 actual drug deals and 23 offers of drug deals to a customer base of about 20 people.

It was the Crown case Maas was motived by profit as well as personal use of the drug.

Maas pleaded guilty to trafficking and possessing meth as well to associated charges including having a mobile phone used for trafficking drugs.

Her barrister Jessica Goldie told the court her client had spent 15 months in custody since her arrest and had used that time to complete rehabilitative courses and get clean of drugs.

Ms Goldie submitted her client had sold the drug every two or three days over the period and that the sales were mainly street level.

However, Justice Martin Burns said Maas struck him as “an experienced drug dealer”.

“There are aspects that suggest to me she’s a hardened dealer,” he said.

Taking into account her efforts at rehabilitation while in prison, Justice Burns sentenced Maas to five and a half years in jail but ordered she be eligible to apply for release on parole as of September 9 this year.