That follows Shaun Stephen Barr’s sentencing in the District Court in Albury for his role in selling “ice” on the Border last year.

Barr recently pleaded guilty in Albury Local Court to counts of supply a prohibited drug on an ongoing basis and offer to supply a prohibited drug.

For that Judge Julia Baly SC sentenced the 30-year-old to three years and six months behind bars.

Barr has to serve two years and three months in jail before becoming eligible for parole, which means he will be released on June 7, 2018.

Barr entered his plea after the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew 64 other charges, comprising 63 of supply and one of supply on an ongoing basis.

He came to the notice of police when they identified several drug-related conversations with the syndicate’s ringleader, Matthew Bainbridge, who is still to be sentenced.

Bainbridge has pleaded guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of 559.96 grams of methamphetamine from August 18 to October 22 last year.

The syndicate made a profit of at least $175,000, with Bainbridge overseeing deals ranging from a few hundred dollars to $30,000.

Some were done in Albury’s Noreuil Park.

Barr was involved in drug deals that police said realised thousands of dollars in “financial reward”.

A major cross-border investigation into the supply of prohibited drugs in the Albury area quickly identified Bainbridge and another man.

Police intercepts of phone conversations between these two then led to Barr being identified as an associate of Bainbridge.

Albury Local Court heard how police discovered that Barr had made and received “numerous drug-related” phone calls and messages a day.

Between September 17 and October 9 last year he made 14 separate offers to supply 14 grams of methamphetamine with a street value of $8000 to $9000.

The ongoing supply charge related to Barr selling up to $4000 of ice, over 12 occasions, between September 18 and October 17.

Police contacted Barr by phone on December 11 to ask him to come in to be interviewed.

But he failed to show on the agreed date.

He was eventually arrested in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Fields back on March 8 of this year.