A Howlong mother-of-six convicted late last year over a drug-supply ring run from her home has been handed more jail time for tobacco stolen in an armed robbery.
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Crystal Lamont bought 20 packets of cigarettes and six pouches of tobacco from someone who turned up at her house.
She then came to an arrangement, Albury Local Court has heard, to swap "half a ball" of "ice" valued at $50 for tobacco with a retail value of $1300.
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Lamont had planned to offload the remaining cigarettes and tobacco to a known associate.
But before she could do so, Lamont was intercepted by police.
The offending, police said, took place just before the home she shared with her partner in life and crime, Armin Fejziz, was raided by police in mid-August, 2019.
A non-parole period of two years will have her eligible for parole on August 14, 2021.
Magistrate Miranda Moody this week jailed her for five months after she pleaded guilty to a single charge of disposing of property stolen as the result of a serious indictable offence.
Defence lawyer Lucy Maranga said the offence was "part of the criminality" for which Lamont had already been sentenced.
For that reason, Ms Maranga submitted that Lamont should be given a good behaviour bond on the charge.
"These are the first offences in time," she said.
But Ms Moody strongly disagreed.
"No, no. I'm not going to do that. It's quite a lot of money (involved)," she said.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Andrew Pike said it was clear that the threshold for a jail term had been crossed.
Ms Moody took the same view.
"I'm not going to, however, interfere with her release date," she said.
Ms Moody's sentence of five months' jail will run concurrently with her District Court sentence, expiring on July 7.
The court was told how tobacco valued at $3200 plus $1200 in cash were stolen during an armed robbery on a Mobil service station in Honour Avenue, Corowa, on August 10, 2019, about 1am.
Fejziz was handed an identical sentence for his role in supplying ice.
