Drug trafficker gets jail

Court told man dealt at street level in Toowoomba

A 26-YEAR-OLD Toowoomba man who trafficked drugs for more than three years has been jailed for more than four years.

Jamie Michael Adcock was aged between 21 and 25 when he trafficked mainly cannabis, but also at times methamphetamine and MDMA (ecstasy), at street level to people in Toowoomba, the city’s Supreme Court was told.

Crown prosecutor Nicole Friedewald told the court Adcock had a customer base of 88 with some regular buyers, and he had supplied or offered to supply drugs on at least 224 occasions and at least on 142 of those occasions he had actually supplied the drug.

Ms Friedewald said the last six months of Adcock’s trafficking business had been “intense”.

He had also tried to conceal his activities by using Snapchat when taking orders over his phone and telling customers to delete references to drug deals on their phones, he said.

His business “came crashing down” when in June 2021 police searched his home and found 84g of cannabis in various bags, 4g of psilocybin (magic mushrooms), 0.77g of meth in two bags and drug utensils including digital scales, pipes for smoking drugs and empty capsules.

Adcock pleaded guilty to trafficking and possessing dangerous drugs.

Ms Friedewald said for the first five months of the trafficking, Adcock had been subject to a parole order imposed for non-related matters.

His barrister Isabelle MacNichol told the court her client, who turned 27 later this month, had been diagnosed with auto-immune hepatitis which left him feeling fatigued and for which he was medicated. Due to the steroids he was taking, Adcock suffered back pain and he said he used cannabis to ease that pain and ecstasy to give him energy, she said. Her client had written a letter of apology to the court and was remorseful for his offending, Ms MacNichol said.

Justice Peter Applegarth said Adcock was being sentenced on the basis he was drug dependant himself during the relevant time.

Justice Applegarth sentenced Adcock to four years and three months in jail, to commence on completion of the five months’ jail he had to serve on his previous sentence, but ordered he be eligible to apply for parole from March 5, 2024.