A drug-addicted woman was found with a stash of methamphetamine in her bra and thousands of dollars in drug proceeds in her bedroom when police raided her West Albury home.
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Kylie Maree Pearce's house in Kurrajong Crescent had been used as a "safe house" for storing drugs and for large-scale distribution across Albury-Wodonga.
She was one of four people at the heart of the Border syndicate, Albury Local Court has heard.
Pearce finally admitted on Tuesday to her key role, this coming just shy of the first anniversary of her arrest.
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Pearce pleaded guilty, through her lawyer, Graham Lamond, to supplying a small and indictable quantity of a prohibited drug and to dealing with the proceeds of crime where the value is less than $100,000.
Pearce supplied, offered to supply or agreed to supply 149.6 grams of methamphetamine between February 27, 2018, and the date of her arrest five months later, August 1.
These comprised 25 deals ranging in weight from 0.1 grams to 15 grams
Magistrate Tony Murray on Tuesday committed the 36-year-old for sentence before the District Court sittings set to get under way in Albury on September 29.
Pearce pleaded guilty also to summary matters of possess a prohibited drug, over the 3.5 grams of "ice" she hid in her bra strap, and to taking part in a criminal group.
With her pleas, Director of Public Prosecutions representative Andrew Hanshaw withdrew the remaining 34 charges she had been facing.
Pearce, who has been in jail bail refused since her arrest, made no comment.
Her guilty plea came only after her defence and the DPP arrived at an agreed set of facts.
These stated how Albury police drug unit detectives set-up Strike Force Palena in February, 2018, to investigate the "drug supply activities" of Pearce and three of her four co-accused.
They included alleged ring leader Mahmoud El-Zayat, who only last week was committed to stand trial on large-scale drug supply charges, and El-Zayat's partner, Claudette Tannous.
The investigation was also focused on Pearce's partner, Thomas Alfred Purtell, who lived with her in the house.
The fifth alleged syndicate member charged was Alfred Maxwell Clark.
On her arrest, Pearce admitted to supplying prohibited drugs to fund her drug habit, but wouldn't talk about the $6725.55 in cash found in her room.
