A high ranking member of the Rebels MC Ballina chapter has been sentenced for a series of drug supply and firearms charges dating back to 2014.
Jamie Lee Adams, 37, appeared in Grafton District Court on Friday, May 29, for sentence after entering guilty pleas charges including supply prohibited drug greater than an indictable quantity, possess precursor intend to use in manufacture/production prohibited drug and possess unauthorised firearms.
Agreed facts in 2013 state NSW Police established Strike Force Belongil to investigate criminal activities of the Rebels MC in the Ballina area.
Telephone calls were intercepted by the Strike Force where Adams was identified as a high-ranking member of the Ballina chapter and believed to have been involved in the supply of methylamphetamine in northern NSW and southern Queensland.
On November 20, 2013, NSW Police in Ballina and Queensland Police on the Gold Coast established Operation Lima Artful and on January 28, 2014, a search warrant was granted for a Bangalow property.
Court documents state about 9pm that night Queensland Police were advised Adams was approaching the border and at 11pm he was stopped at Nerang. A search of his vehicle uncovered 13.945 grams of 46 per cent pure methylamphetamine, three phones, $1180 in cash, a flick knife and a recipe for methylamphetamine.
Court documents revealed on January 29 a search warrant was executed at Adams’ Bangalow property where a Winchester 308 rifle and Bruno .22 rile were found.
A drug detection dog found 49.25 grams of 71.5 per cent pure methylamphetamine as well as chemicals used to cut the drug for supply. Further instructions for the manufacturing of methylamphetamine were also discovered, as well as scales and resealable bags.
For the charges related to his Queensland arrest Adams was sentenced in Brisbane Magistrate Court in December 2015 for drug trafficking and possession and received a fiveyear prison sentence, suspended after two years, two months.
In Grafton District Court last week Judge J Priestley sentenced Adams to a two-year intensive corrections order to expire on May 28, 2022.
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Source: The Daily Examiner