A DRUG dealer who sold ice from the bedroom of his family home could be in jail until mid-2021.
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Benjamin Paul Heather was jailed for a maximum of four years and three months in Albury District Court this week.
The 31-year-old’s dealing wasn’t at all sophisticated.
He openly talked on his phone about methamphetamine sales and the names of people involved as police listened in.
A tick sheet detailed the names of a large number of people he had sold to and how much they each owed.
Heather was on parole for drug dealing when he sold $68,400 worth of ice to undercover officers on four occasions.
The drugs were sold in bags weighing 110 grams, 83 grams, 82 grams, 55 grams and seven grams.
When police came knocking at his Lavington home in Parkland Crescent on February 14, Heather denied any involvement in the drug trade.
He told detectives he was on parole and didn’t want to “go back in”.
Heather took police to his bedroom where a search found more than $6300, including $5900 in a bum bag and $365 in his jacket.
Gun parts, drugs, sim cards and phones were also found in the home.
He told police he had been using upwards of a gram of ice every day, but the profits from his sales all went to a supplier higher up.
The 31-year-old said he had been dealing as a way to fund his own habit.
He has several priors for drug trafficking and began using as a teenager, which he said had led to him being kicked out of home at 16.
The earliest he can be released is February 13, 2020, and the latest is August 13, 2021. Co-offender Tammie Parnaby will be sentenced on November 6, and other associates have matters pending.
