A POLICE dragnet that caught three drug peddlers at Young earlier this year has resulted in two people being given jail sentences and a third admitting to 12 offences today.
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Alison Kathleen Jones, 43, pleaded guilty in Wagga Local Court to two counts of supplying prohibited drugs on an ongoing basis, one count of supplying a prohibited drug greater than the indictable quantity and nine counts of supplying a prohibited drug.
Her plea was lodged by solicitor David Barron while Jones watched via audio-visual link from prison.
After lodging the pleas, Mr Barron told magistrate Michael Antrum that after speaking with Jones and a representative of the Director of Public Prosecutions the proposal was that the matters be committed for sentence in the District Court, with the facts yet to be finalised.
"You are satisfied the elements of the offences have been made out?" Mr Antrum asked Mr Barron.
"The elements are there, it's just the specifics to be ironed out," Mr Barron replied.
Mr Antrum then committed Jones for sentence and adjourned the case for sentence in the Wagga District Court sittings starting on August 25.
It is alleged Jones supplied the illegal drugs between July and October last year.
Jones, her 21-year-old son Alex and 49-year-old Cecelia Ruth Hardman (also known as Cruden) were arrested at Young in February as part of a police operation known as Strike Force Nandi.
The strike force was formed in 2013 to investigate the ongoing supply of amphetamine and methamphetamine in Young district.
Alison and Alex Jones, then of Boorowa, were arrested in a car in McLerie Street, Young, on February 13 after a search warrant was executed at a Boorowa house.
Hardman was arrested at a house in Young the following day.
Police accused her of selling drugs to an undercover police operative put into Young as part of Strike Force Nandi as well as agreeing to sell drugs to person described only as a "central figure".
She pleaded guilty to four counts of supplying amphetamine and on April 22 was given a fixed jail sentence of one month on one count and a nine-month jail term with two months' non-parole for the other three counts.
An appeal arguing the sentence is too severe is currently before the Wagga District Court.
She appeared yesterday when her case was adjourned to August 8 for hearing.
Alex Jones pleaded guilty in Young Local Court on May 15 to six counts of supplying a prohibited drug.
He was jailed for 12 months, with four months' non-parole.
Jones lodged a severity appeal in the District Court but the appeal was withdrawn this week.
-The Daily Advertiser
