A Barrack Heights man has confessed to being a "major runner" for an Illawarra drug supply empire allegedly run by two burly, ginger-haired twin brothers.
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Colby Campbell, 29, pleaded guilty in Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday to supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs after police secretly recorded him delivering 1.2kg worth of ecstasy pills to the syndicate's alleged kingpins, Joel and Flinn Westman, on July 31 last year.
A police bug planted inside the Westmans' home in Wonson Avenue in Cringila allegedly caught the trio discussing the drug haul and boasting about how much money they were going to make.
Documents tendered to the court reveal Campbell, a loyal lieutenant to the syndicate whose sister Nikita Campbell was dating Joel Westman at the time, attended the home just after 2pm carrying a large plastic bag that was wrapped in a fluro orange shirt and contained a "brown-coloured product" inside.
"So there's some missing, but there's more than four," Campbell told the twins as he sat down at the dining table.
"They're good, they're the Euros".
Police will allege the trio can be heard on the listening device discussing the pills, including questioning whether they were "dodgy" of "half-cut".
One of the twins allegedly said to Campbell "so these are proper MDA, hey?"
The same twin allegedly called an unknown person a few minutes later and said "we got 'em now boys, big shipment, at the house in half an hour".
The trio allegedly spend the next several minutes weighing the ecstasy pills and splitting them into 100-gram quantities.
Police said there was at least 4,200 pills in the haul.
It is alleged the second twin then divvied up the drugs between the trio for on-sale.
Police will allege they overheard the first twin gloating about the profit the haul was expected to bring them.
"We're going to make $35,000 from this.....$40 individual pills.....got $300,000 worth of shit," he allegedly told Campbell and his brother.
"I hope they're cracking bro."
The Westman twins, along with their older brother Daniel, Nikita Campbell, and other drug associates including Shaun Lane and David Ognenovski, were all arrested during sweeping raids on several Illawarra homes on August 16 last year.
Detectives arrested Campbell the following day outside Wollongong courthouse after he turned up to support his sister's bid for bail.
She was subsequently released from custody, however he wasn't and has remained behind bars ever since.
In court documents, police described Campbell as a "close criminal associate" of the Westman twins and one of operation's key "street-level dealers".
They said Campbell was often recorded regularly at the Westmans' house and was recorded carrying out day-to-day operations for the group including discussing with the twins upcoming supplies and debts owed by customers and delivering, collecting, weighing and packaging the drugs.
He was also monitored driving around to make deliveries and pick ups in a white BMW the syndicate had allegedly stolen from a customer who owed them a drug debt.
On one occasion in July, Campbell was recorded selling 27.8g of cocaine and 98g of MDMA to an undercover police mole in the carpark of the KFC at Unanderra.
Campbell will face Wollongong District Court next month for a sentencing date to be set.
