Glamorous Westpac bank manager, 28, is among six dial-a-dealers who supplied cocaine to high-flying executives to be spared jail
- Glamorous former Westpac bank manager avoids jail for supplying cocaine
- Danielle Gabris was part of a six-person drug syndicate operating in Sydney
- The illegal group was uncovered by an undercover police operation in 2017
- All six drug dealers escaped jail time and instead received corrective orders
Danielle Jade Gabris (pictured) was one of a six-person dial-a-dealer syndicate which supplied the class A drug in central Sydney
A glamorous Westpac bank manager who supplied cocaine to high-flying executives has narrowly avoided time behind bars.
Danielle Jade Gabris, 28, was one of a six-person dial-a-dealer syndicate which supplied class A drugs to business heavyweights in central Sydney.
Police allege Gabris made just $300 during her short-lived stint as a drug dealer – despite officers finding more than $5000 cash in her car.
Gabris and the other syndicate members faced Downing Centre’s District Court on Saturday, in which five of them, including Gabris, were given an Intensive Correction Order (IOC).
The sixth member was handed a Community Correction Order because she had since relocated to Melbourne – and an IOC cannot be enforced in the state of Victoria.
Police shutdown the unlawful operation after an undercover operation which took place between October and November 2017.
Officers claimed members of the syndicate would be contacted by prospective buyers on a central number via a text or a phone call, news.com.au reported.
Police allege Gabris (pictured) made just $300 during her short-lived stint as a drug dealer
After pre-agreeing an appropriate location, either Gabris or one of her two co-conspirators – fellow Westpac staffer Hayra Pasic or electrician Ahmed El-Harris -would deliver the drugs.
Plumber Mohammed Halwani, car dealer Kristen Maree Seymour and tradie Mahmoud Berjaoui also confessed to supplying cocaine using the same method.
Having monitored the syndicates movements, an undercover officer arranged for Gabris to deliver a bag of cocaine to a location in Newtown.
Electrician Ahmed El-Harris (pictured left) and plumber Mohammed Halwani (pictured right) were also sentenced for dealing cocaine
A few weeks later Gabris was arrested at her workplace and officers conducted a search of her car.
As a result of the search, police uncovered 15 bags of cocaine and $5100 in cash in the driver’s side door, the court heard.
During the hearing Judge Jonathon Priestley SC said Gabris was a ‘low-level delivery person’ in a much larger scale operation.
But he did remark she had ‘wanted to’ offend, and dubbed her excuse that people she had previously hung around with had been to blame for introducing her to drugs as ‘weak’.
Gabris and the other syndicate members faced Downing Centre’s District Court (pictured) on Saturday, in which five of them, including Gabris, were given an Intensive Correction Order
‘If you are found to be holding as much as a tiny bit of marijuana, then you’ll be in strife,’ Judge Priestley SC also said.
The court heard Pasic, another member of the syndicate, was also approached by an undercover officer who asked to buy two bugs of cocaine at Sydney’s Opera Bar.
Judge Priestley SC said all members of the syndicate had ‘minor or no’ criminal records prior to their involvement with the operation.
He said it could have been the reason they were chosen to partake in the illicit operation.
Judge Priestley SC also noted that five out of the six members have obtained ‘gainful’ employment, and all had taken measures to change their lives.
Although he did warn the offenders not to treat it as a happy day, and noted they were not free in the same way they had been the previous day.