Dealer undone by phone tap

A DRUG dealer was caught with pills in her handbag after police tapped her phone, a court has heard.

Candida Lee- Bianca Alliston, 27, was sentenced in Townsville District Court on Wednesday on 21 counts of supplying dangerous drugs, three counts of possessing dangerous drugs and possessing anything used in the commission of a crime.

The court heard Alliston’s phone calls and messages were intercepted by police after a warrant was issued on February 11, 2016, with police finding her supplying morphine and methylamphetamine. Crown prosecutor Siobhan Harrison said police searched Alliston’s Railway Estate home on March 24, 2016, and found two clip- seal bags in her handbag. “One bag held 10 small white tablets, the other held two white tablets and two half orange tablets,” she said.

Defence barrister Anthony Collins said Alliston became addicted to morphine after being in a car accident.

Judge Gregory Lynham said Alliston was “old enough now to realise drugs have been a scourge in your life. You need to do something about your drug addiction, you can’t keep going on in life like this,” he said.

Alliston was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for the 21 counts of supply, nine months for the possession of dangerous drugs charges and nine months for possession of a thing used in connection with a crime. Her parole release date was set at September 12, 2018.