Prison for Bay drug dealer

A Welcome Bay labourer who admitted drug dealing charges has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison.

Isaac Kilby was sentenced in Tauranga District Court on charges of offering to supply cannabis, supplying methamphetamine, offering to supply ecstasy and having equipment used for drugs.

Armed police, and firefighters were involved in a drug raid in Welcome Bay in 2012.

Kilby was arrested following drug raids in Welcome Bay and Arataki in November 2012.

More than 50 police staff from Tauranga and Rotorua, with firefighters and hazardous materials teams, swooped on the two Tauranga suburbs on November 28, executing search warrants at three properties suspected of being P-labs.

Arataki woman Jessica Caulfield was also arrested in the raids. She pleaded guilty to procuring and possessing methamphetamine, possessing equipment/material with intent and producing/manufacturing methamphetamine/amphetamine last year.

On November 29, 2013, she was sentenced to six months home detention and ordered to complete 150 hours' community work.

Tauranga man Shaun McDonald was sentenced to three years in jail when he pleaded guilty to the same charges on November 1, 2013.

A fourth man, Troy Kakau, pleaded guilty to 12 drug-related charges on January 24.

He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison on March 6.

In court yesterday, Judge Thomas Ingram said the quantities of drugs involved indicated that Kilby was more than just a street-level dealer.

When police executed a search warrant, they found 1 gram of methamphetamine, 34 grams of cannabis and a small amount of ecstasy.

The equipment charge is in relation to a bag stored in a closet which contained PH strips and a reaction vessel – typically used to make methamphetamine.

'This is a serious class of offending. Class A drug offending attracts a maximum sentence of life imprisonment,” Judge Ingram told Kilby as he stood in the docks.

'This shows that you are involved in the drug dealing world. Just how far, I would say quite a way. It wasn't just one drug found. It was not just a street-level deal.”

Defence lawyer Tony Balme said Kilby had made an effort to distance himself from the people involved in the offending since the police raid in 2012.

'He just wants to move on with his life,” said Tony.

In addition to Kilby's prison sentence, Judge Ingram ordered him to pay $1301.22 in reparation.

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1 comment

Build more prisons!

Posted on 23-10-2014 17:05 | By How about this view!

So that we can lock-up the deadbeats and dropkicks for a lot longer. About time we thought in terms of places such as Motiti Island as a prison site. I'm sure that landowners would earn more from the land as a prison than from growing kiwifruit etc. But wait, I can hear the whining of the rehabilitationists starting up.... Some people are beyond rehabilitation and need a good kick in the pants!!


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