A Rotorua mother who supplied up to $408,000 worth of methamphetamine from various places, including from her workplace at a Lotto store, is heavily pregnant and is likely to have her baby in prison.
Jaime Clare Hyde, 29, has appeared in the High Court at Rotorua and pleaded guilty to a charge each of supplying methamphetamine, offering to supply methamphetamine, offering to supply Ecstasy, possession of methamphetamine for supply and conspiring with others to possess methamphetamine for supply. The charges are all representative which means that she offended on more than one occasion.
The offending was committed between September 11 and October 25 last year at Rotorua and elsewhere.
According to the Crown summary of facts, police analysed Hyde's text messages and it became clear she was drug dealing.
Hyde sent and received text messages offering to supply buyers with methamphetamine. She primarily dealt in methamphetamine but on several occasions offered to supply Ecstasy.
The text talk included buying and selling methamphetamine, attempting to locate more supplies of the drug, and offering the drug.
On several occasions discussions were had about buying several ounces worth of the drug from an Auckland source.
Hyde told the buyer the price of the drug was $14,000 for an ounce, $8000 for half an ounce, $4500 for quarter of an ounce and $650 for a gram.
On one occasion she told a buyer she couldn't come to see them as she and her daughter were sick.
Hyde sold methamphetamine from her place of work - The Lucky Lottery Shop on Tutanekai St - and her Taupo apartment.
She would also meet her buyers in and around Rotorua and Taupo.
On almost every day her private communications were intercepted there was talk of drug dealing.
When police searched Hyde's home in Taupo they found a container in a shoe box in a wardrobe with 11 hypodermic syringes and two hypodermic needles which had traces of methamphetamine.
Throughout the apartment a number of tick lists were found. One of the lists had a small "g" next to certain numbers indicating the metric scale of grams.
Paraphernalia associated with the use of the drug was also found.
The Crown has conservatively estimated the amount of methamphetamine Hyde supplied was about 408g. A gram of methamphetamine sells for between $600 and $1000.
Hyde was arrested at Auckland International Airport about to board a plane bound for Perth for a two-week holiday.
When spoken to by police Hyde said she was a recreational user of the drug but didn't sell it.
Hyde's lawyer Lester Cordwell told the court Hyde was up to seven months pregnant and was in custody.
Mr Cordwell asked for a later date for sentencing.
Justice Graham Lang remanded Hyde in custody for sentencing in the High Court at Auckland on October 19.
The present owner of the Lucky Lottery Shop, who did not want to be named, told The Daily Post she bought the business from Hyde's parents in December and the staff who were there at the time Hyde was, were no longer employed.