A Cootamundra woman will complete 100 hours community service and will spend 12 months on a community corrections order for supplying methamphetamine.
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Justine Diane Walsh, 33, was convicted at Young Local Court on Tuesday, February 19 for dealing methamphetamine in Young during December last year.
Conversations between Walsh and a co-offender were intercepted by detectives from Strike Force MIDIN - an operation by Young detectives targeting drug supply in the area - on December 22 and December 24.
Police alleged that Walsh was organising the supply of methamphetamine.
She was arrested in Young on Friday, January 4 and she was later charged with two counts of supply and possessing a prohibited drug.
In custody, Walsh told police that she'd helped a friend obtain the drug, and that said she had not taken money from the transactions.
"The spread of this drug only happens if people like you are willing to participate," Magistrate Michael O'Brien said in sentencing Walsh.
"Get off this path, or you may have your freedom taken from you."
As part of the sentence, Magistrate Michael O'Brien made a condition that she is to abstain from drugs for the length of the community corrections order.
Strike Force MIDIN police have charged five people since it was established by local police in September last year.
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Second offence
A man from Grenfell has been convicted of drink driving for the second time in five years.
Zachary Starr, 21, will spend the next month without a driver's licence then can only drive vehicle's with an interlock device after being sentenced at Young Local Court on Tuesday, February 19.
He came to police attention when he attempted to avoid a stationary breath test site on the Olympic Highway in Cowra about 2.30am on November 25.
When he was pulled over he told police he'd consumed beer and spirits between 7pm on Saturday night and 1am on Sunday morning.
He was arrested after he was subjected to a breath test which returned a positive result.
At Cowra Police Station he registered a low range reading of .073.
"He realised he made a silly decision to drive," his solicitor told the court.
