A woman who police found in possession of methamphetamine, oxycodone, buprenorphine and cannabis in a fast-food driveway early on Monday morning was sentenced to jail later that day.
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Jessica Honey Fallon, 24, of Cooper Street, Byron Bay, appeared in Orange Local Court in custody on Monday and was refused bail.
She was brought back to the dock later in the day, dismissed legal representation and pleaded to be sentenced straight away rather than being held in custody on remand.
“I understand that in the past I have made a lot of mistakes and that my history has not changed,” Fallon said.
“I need help, I don’t need jail, it’s only going to make me worse.
“I have asked the court for help before and I was denied it due to the fact I was on serious charges [on remand].
“I don’t want this for my life.”
Magistrate David Day asked whether she had attempted rehabilitation before and she said she had not.
“That’s all I want is to go to rehabilitation and stop doing drugs and be there for my partner and I cannot be there for my partner in jail,” Fallon said.
Mr Day granted Fallon’s request and gave her three concurrent jail sentences of seven months each with two months to be served without parole until September 1.
The jail sentences were for possession of the methamphetamine, eight oxycodone tablets and five buprenophine strips.
For possession of cannabis she was given a two-year good behaviour bond.
Fallon was also given an 18-month good behaviour bond for having possession of a driver’s licence of another woman, that had been in a wallet that was stolen from a vehicle in Dubbo in April.
The conditions of the bonds include that she must enter and complete drug rehabilitation.
“The ball’s in your court,” Mr Day said.
Fallon was the passenger in a car at the McDonald’s Bathurst Road drive-through at 1.30am when police were told there appeared to be cannabis on a piece of paper between the male driver and Fallon.
When police approached the silver Mazda Tribute in the drive-through, the pair were seen to scatter “green and brown plant matter” on Fallon’s clothes.
They were then searched and Fallon was found with 0.6 grams of cannabis that was hidden in a McDonald’s bag along with a burger.
Police also found two small plastic bags containing 0.3 grams of methamphetamine and syringes among her makeup and toiletries as well as two bags of cannabis and the prescribed drugs and driver’s licence.
Fallon was also due to appear in Downing Centre and Fairfield courts in Sydney on Monday.
