A GLEN Innes woman will be sentenced next year after admitting to supplying amphetamines and possessing ice.
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Jodie Moore will learn her fate in an Armidale court in January after police intercepted her carrying the drugs on the New England Highway at Grahams Valley, near Glen Innes on August 30.
In Armidale Local Court last week, the Director of Public Prosecutions solicitor Ben Barrack confirmed the DPP would take over the case because of the quantity of drugs seized.
Following the vehicle stop, Moore had admitted to possessing ice and MDMA and supplying 117.2g of amphetamine. “Are you pleading to that charge?” Magistrate Karen Stafford asked.
“Yes, your honour,” Moore replied.
Acting on a tip-off, Glen Innes officers pulled Moore’s Hyundai Excel over just after 11am and questioned her.
“After a brief conversation with the accused, she indicated to police that she was in possession of a small quantity of the drug ice, which was concealed in the back of her cigarette packet and that this drug was for her own personal use,” facts tendered to the court state.
During a conversation with police, Moore produced an ice pipe from her jacket before she was arrested and taken to Glen Innes Police Station.
Glen Innes detectives accompanied the car, which was towed from the scene, and extra detectives from Armidale were called in before the vehicle was searched at the police station.
According to the police facts, one of the Armidale detectives removed the spare tyre from the boot of the vehicle and within the rim of the spare tyre, they discovered a small black box magnetically stuck to the rim.
“(The detective) removed this box and opened it, revealing six plastic bags, with five containing a brown crystallised substance believed to be ice, and one small plastic bag containing solid rock forms believed to be ice,” the facts said.
The drugs were sent for forensic analysis and found to be amphetamine.
“Four knotted plastic bags from within the black box contained 117.2g of amph- etamine. The small knotted plastic bag within the black box contained 1.02g of MDMA,” additional facts tendered to the court stated.
Moore’s solicitor applied to have her bail conditions, including a curfew, relaxed and asked for a pre-sentence report to examine her background and what led to the offending.
“There are a lot of subjective features that need to be looked at by an expert,” her solicitor told the court.
Ms Stafford ordered the drugs to be destroyed and the ice pipe to be forfeited.
Moore was committed for sentence in Armidale District Court in January.