Woman caught in police op

A WOMAN who trafficked drugs from Toowoomba to St George was nailed by police targeting another drug dealer.

Crown prosecutor Mel Smith told Toowoomba Supreme Court a police operation had targeted a known trafficker of drugs in the country towns west of Toowoomba.

As part of the investigations, police found another man dealing drugs who had sourced drugs from Katrina Leigh Edmondstone.

She had sold meth, ecstasy, cannabis and soboxone over the period, Ms Wilson said.

Edmondstone had sourced drugs from a woman in Inglewood and despite her being on Centrelink payments at the time, some $36,500 had gone into her bank account over the 79 day period leading up to her arrest in December 2019.

She and her partner had broken into the Inglewood woman’s home on November 12, 2019, and stolen $15,000 cash, Ms Wilson said.

Edmondstone, 25, who up until this offending had only a minor criminal history, pleaded guilty to trafficking, burglary and stealing and other drugs offences.

The court heard she had spent 130 days in custody after her arrest and had been on bail since her release last April.

She had undergone counselling and had been clean of drugs since and was now pregnant with a child due in June.

Justice David Jackson sentenced Edmondstone to four years and six months in jail but, declaring the 130 days presentence custody as time served, ordered the term be suspended after those 130 days for four years and six months.

She was also placed on three years probation.