A 24-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to supplying methylamphetamine after being arrested with 66 grams of the illicit drug during a traffic stop in August.
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Courtney Mackay Hurley of Bald Hills Rd in Bald Hills pleaded guilty in Bega Local Court on September 25 to supplying the drug and dealing with the proceeds of crime.
Hurley, who was described by a friend in court documents as having a “heart of gold”, was stopped by officers attached to the South Coast Proactive Crime Team from Bega on Quondolo St in Pambula for a random breath test around 2am on August 6.
Court documents state “police had suspicion the vehicle or occupants may be in possession of prohibited drugs”.
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A subsequent search of the vehicle uncovered over $5000 of large bank notes “bundled together” in a purse, and 66 grams of methylamphetamine in a plastic container in a handbag.
Hurley, who was on a two year good behaviour bond for driving and drug offences in 2017, and her passenger were both arrested, and police seized two mobile phones.
“It’s not what it looks like. It’s cut,” Hurley initially told police.
“I got it off someone. It’s not stuff. It’s synthetic something. It’s cut.”
The term “cut” is used to refer to a non-drug substance added to illicit drugs in order to dilute it.
Hurley was questioned by police at Merimbula Police Station, where she admitted to writing drug prices on documents found in an acquaintance’s car in August.
Hurley will face Bega Local Court on November 13.
In other court news, DNA left on a hammer used to break into a Pambula paint store has linked a 24-year-old Bega man to a 2017 robbery of the shop.
Brokk Peter Smith of Rawlinson St in Bega was sentenced by Magistrate Doug Dick in Bega Local Court on September 25 to an 18 month Community Correction Order, after pleading guilty to a break in at Bristol Paints in September last year.
Court documents state Smith and another unknown person broke a side entrance door before fleeing with $345 in cash kept in a cloth bag and an empty cash register till.
Police investigating the robbery located a black and red handled hammer on the store’s front counter, which four months later was tested by forensics, and DNA evidence linked to Smith.
He was arrested at Silverwater Correctional Complex’s Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre almost eight months later, on September 13 this year.
Smith denied taking the money, but admitted to police he had stolen the till drawer.
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