A woman was sentenced to home detention after admitting she was a regular contact for the domestic trafficking of methamphetamine to Christchurch from the North Island in early 2014.
In the Christchurch District Court, 28-year-old Phillippa Erin Sigvertsen was sentenced on charges of conspiring to supply methamphetamine on March 6 2014, and offering to supply methamphetamine between February and March 2014.
Sigvertsen was found in a motel room in Blenheim Road with a backpack containing 6.7mg of methamphetamine, and $7333 in cash.
One co-offender, Tamal Edward McMeekan, a 34-year-old salesman, was sentenced in April to prison for seven years nine months after pleading guilty to two charges of possession of methamphetamine for supply, two of unlawful possession of a pistol, possession of implements for using methamphetamine, dealing in methamphetamine, and possession of cannabis for supply.
The other man, 46-year-old Arthur Mohi, will be sentenced in January on a methamphetamine charge.
Judge David Saunders said Sigvertsen was a first offender, and in a different category to the co-offenders.
He sentenced her to 11 months home detention, with conditions that she not consume alcohol or other drugs and do any rehabilitation or counselling directed by her probation officer.
He told the heavily pregnant Sigvertsen that he hoped she would be a productive member of the community and keep well away from the methamphetamine scene.
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