A member of a dark web drug ring worth $17million will be released from prison in time for Christmas.
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On December 14, Judge Robyn Tupman sentenced Patricia Koullias, aged 22, of Quakers Hill to an aggregate sentence of three years for a number of charges related to drug supply and participate in a criminal group, with a non-parole period of 22 months.
On August 4 in Nowra Local Court Patricia Koullias pleaded guilty to six counts of supplying a prohibited drug and participating in a criminal group.
At her sentence hearing on October 21 she told the court she had helped her sister and co-accused Shanese Koullias package drugs and deliver them to the post office from her sister's Callala Bay home.
At Patricia's sentence hearing, the court heard Shanese Koullias' work was undertaken at the behest of Cody Ward, who had set up the drug business on the dark web.
Patricia Koullias has been in prison since her arrest on February 14, 2019, and has already served her non-parole period.
The court ordered she was to be released on parole.