Addicted ice-dealing pair face sentencing

A DRUG-DEALING couple will today learn how long they will spend behind bars after running an ice-trafficking business in Cairns.

Phone taps revealed that Christopher Michael Armagnacq and Erin Georgia Bailey made at least 277 supplies to 65 customers over a 59-day police surveillance period during an operation targeting methylamphetamines distribution between Sydney, Gold Coast and Cairns.

The value of the drugs was able to be determined for about 130 of those deals, totalling about $65,132.

“It works out to about $1103 … per day,” crown prosecutor Claudia Georgouras said.

The Cairns Supreme Court heard that Armagnacq, 34, had an established trafficking business from his Gordonvale home when Bailey, 22, moved in and joined the enterprise.

Ms Georgouras said that she took over enforcement of the drug debts.

“They also knowingly supplied to nine customers with the knowledge they were going to be onselling,” Ms Georgouras said.

The pair pleaded guilty to multiple charges including trafficking over 259 days between late 2016 and mid-2017.

The court heard they both had a methylamphetamine addiction and were selling to support their habit.

Defence barrister Rochelle Logan, for Armagnacq, said that not all supplies identified had been completed.

Barrister Michael Dalton said Bailey had a “dysfunctional childhood” and had been exposed to domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse.

Justice James Henry sentence the pair today. will