Four members of an alleged methamphetamine ring operating between Dubbo, Wellington and Sydney faced Dubbo Local Court yesterday.
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Tara Follett, 25, Danielle Louise Follett, 21, Megan Humphries, 28, and Brendan Lee Gray, 25, made brief appearances via audio visual link from jail.
The Department of Public Prosecutions obtained four-week adjournments on each occasion to allow plea negotiations to continue.
The accused quartet were ordered to reappear in Dubbo Local Court via audio visual link on October 27.
There were no applications for bail and bail was formally refused by Magistrate Howard Hamilton.
Tara Follett faces a total of eight charges including six of supplying a prohibited drug, one of participating in a criminal group and one of knowingly allowing her premises to be used as a drug premises.
Danielle Follett has been charged on 10 counts, nine of supplying a prohibited drug and one of participating in a criminal group.
Megan Humphries is facing five counts of supplying a prohibited drug and one of participating in a criminal group while Gray faces 11 charges, including 10 of supplying prohibited drugs.
All are accused of supplying an amount greater than a commercial quantity of the drugs, with deals done over a period of time stretching from late 2009 through to the early months of 2010.
The quartet was arrested in June following a covert police operation known as Operation Granchester II.
Police also arrested a number of Sydney-based people alleged to be members of the drug syndicate. Those arrested included a 14-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man accused of being an associate of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang.
Tara and Danielle Follett and Megan Humphries remain at Silverwater Women’s Correctional Centre. Brendan Gray is being held at Wellington Correctional Centre.
