NAMED: Five Toowoomba region drug dealers who have faced local court
These five people have been known to sell various drugs across the Toowoomba region.
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Every day dozens of people appear in front of the Toowoomba Magistrates Court, the Toowoomba District Court and the Toowoomba Supreme Court.
These are five people that have appeared in court on matters relating to drug trafficking and drug dealing.
Bryton Paul Delaney
The Toowoomba Supreme Court heard Bryton Paul Delaney hid in cupboard with his partner when police came knocking, in May 2019.
Along with finding Delaney curled up in the cupboard, police located 2.01 grams of meth, a collection of drug utensils, tainted property, a mobile phone and $1990 in suspected drug money.
“You were involved in the supply of drugs for profit,” Justice Martin Burns said.
“That is the very essence of the charge of trafficking.”
Delaney was jailed after he pleaded guilty to one count of drug trafficking and four lesser drug charges.
David Rodney Werner
For about six months, David Rodney Werner headed to the Quart Pot Creek in Stanthorpe with his fishing gear in hand, but the only catch he had on the line was the town’s meth addicts.
The Toowoomba Supreme Court heard the 38-year-old man trafficked in meth from November 28, 2017 to June 12, 2018, making $1500 each day.
Judge Burns ordered a head sentence of six years in jail for the trafficking charge.
Noting Werner’s lengthy pre-sentence custody, Judge Burns set Werner’s parole eligibility date at May 19, 2021.
Matt Ashley Daniells
A wrongful charge for armed robbery derailed Matt Ashley Daniells’ life.
He was placed on strict bail conditions that included a curfew, and as a result he lost his job in the mines.
It also prompted the breakdown of his long-term relationship and an escalation of his meth addiction.
The Toowoomba Supreme Court heard Daniells used the drug to “mask the serious issues” he faced until the robbery charges were dropped in May 2019.
But Daniells also used the drug as a source of income.
Daniels pleaded guilty to 12 counts of supplying a dangerous drug, one count of trafficking and one of suppling a category H weapon.
Chanse Patrick Currie
A young man’s attempt to turn a profit at the Rabbits Eat Lettuce music festival came undone after he was stopped en route for a drug test.
Not only did police detect the presence of cannabis in Chanse Patrick Currie’s saliva but a search of his car found a kaleidoscope of drugs.
The Toowoomba Supreme Court heard police uncovered three clip-seal bags containing a brown powder, three clip-seal bags containing white crystals, 63 capsules, two cardboard tabs, a clip-seal plastic bag of tablet fragments and a vial of brown liquid.
Justice Burns ordered a head sentence of two and half years in jail, with immediate parole.
Oskar Jack Tranter
A talented musician could have put his burgeoning career in jeopardy by trafficking drugs on the streets of Toowoomba.
Just two weeks after his 18th birthday, Oskar Jack Tranter started supplying mainly cannabis but also MDMA (ecstasy) to a customer base of about 20 people from late 2018 to mid-2019, Toowoomba District Court heard.
During the nine months of trafficking, the now 20-year-old had supplied drugs on 35 occasions including ecstasy on nine occasions.
Tranter was sentenced to 30 months’ jail but released on immediate parole.