A former seller of sex toys has changed her flash life of luxury for a prison cell after she was convicted of her role in an international drug syndicate.
Party girl Sarah Baines was sentenced to a maximum of 11 years because of conspiracy to trade a large commercial amount of methamphetamine. She was also convicted from trade in GHB.
Baines, 33, tried to buy 1 kg meth for $ 165,000 on June 22, 2022 for a deal of a gas station in the north of Melbourne.
She had deported with the African community leader Abdul Diallo and another man Darren Hafner to buy drugs worth almost $ 300,000 against street value.
Researchers have linked the conspirators and determined that the trio had been in communication since 1 May.
Diallo, an ex-hospital staff member and the driver of Amazon, sent a Minion to the gas station with a meth sample for Baines, but the deal fell when that Minion stopped the transaction for unknown reasons.
On September 20, authorities fought Baines' Plush Southbank Boulevard High-Rise apartment and seized her phone, meth and date-recovering party drug 1,4 butanediol.
The police investigated Baines' phone and discovered that she had been to have been dealing with a GHB-Mirror medicine, since January 19, since 17 April.
Sarah Baines (photo) was sentenced to a long prison sentence after she was found guilty of conspiracy to trade a large commercial amount of meth
The court heard Baines, who had no previous convictions, worked in the sale of sex toys and led its own cleaning company after completing an advanced business diploma.
Melbourne Magistrates Court heard that Baines lived a party girl lifestyle with regular GHB and Meth use, but is now confronted with years in prison in Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Center.
Diallo, who came to Australia after he had been abducted by the Sierra Leone rebels who killed his father, was an 'active participant' in a drug syndicate that consumed to import a Meth Provision from India, Malaysia and Dubai.
The court heard the former African community leader sorting with two other men to import three shipments from pseudoefoedrine between January 30 and July 27, 2022.
A specialized task force seized nearly 13 kg of pseudoefdrine after launching operation Jondalup to Snare Diallo and his crew.
The Victorian joint organized crime Taskforce, including AFP officers, Victoria Police and Australian Border Force, identified the syndicate as 'actively involved' in importing the precursor used to produce large quantities of meth.
It is understood that intelligence from the operation was handed over to a specialist Victoria Police Crew who investigated and arrested Baines.
Baines was well supported in court and various references of former customers, friends, employers were submitted on behalf of her.
Sarah Baines (photo) worked in the retail trade, the sale of sex toys and led her own cleaning company after completing an advanced diploma of the business community
A charity organizer who had Baines for more than 10 years also wrote a letter of support for the convicted drug trafficking.
Hafner, a father whose firstborn child died, was arrested in his house and was trapped with heroin.
Judge Richard Maidment said that Diallo was an 'active participant' in the conspiracy.
“This was not spontaneous or isolated, it was well planned for financial reward,” said Judge Maidment.
Baines, who appeared in prison via Videolink in court after having spent 230 days in pre -trial detention, will serve at least seven years before he is eligible for conditional release.
Diallo and Hafner, who appeared together from the Marngoneet Correctional Center, were both imprisoned for a maximum of 12 years and 8 years.
Diallo was given a minimum prison sentence of eight years and eight months, while Hafner has to serve for at least eight years and four months.
