Luke Kinzett, 42, was placed on an intensive corrections order for one year and 11 months in Wollongong District Court on Friday.

Kinzett admitted to supplying 121.2 grams of methylamphetamine over a two-month period.

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Agreed facts tendered to court said a police strike force was established to investigate the supply of meth in the Lake Illawarra area in April 2018.

Lawful telephone intercepts and other surveillance revealed the supplier allegedly purchased bulk amounts of ice, which he then on-sold to Matthew Spinks, Joshua Frankcom, Michael Kominkovski, Casey Dekker and Kinzett for further distribution.

Kinzett supplied meth on five occasions between October 1 and December 24, 2018, of which three sales were for 28.3 grams, another for 22.3 grams and 14.1 grams.

Kinzett attended Lake Illawarra Police Station on November 19, 2019 and was arrested before being charged and given conditional bail.

In court, Judge Haesler said Kinzett was recruited by criminal associates to supply to others in order to supplement his disability pension and obtain a regular supply of the drug for his own use as he was a long term user and in debt to his supplier.

"Kinzett did what he did for his personal benefit and profit," Judge Haesler said.

"He trafficked the drug to his own customers. He had control of his own street level business but he lacked the means to purchase the drugs up front.

"He was a participant in organised criminal activity that had the potential to cause harm to many."

Judge Haesler took into account Kinzett's early guilty plea, his psychological conditions due to childhood trauma, long-term drug addiction, his turnaround while on remand and demonstrated progress towards rehabilitation as he was no longer using, had severed ties with his criminal associates and was regularly attending counselling.

"Recent reports indicate that despite him finding counselling challenging he has persevered," Judge Haesler said.

"[Kinzett's] period on remand since his arrest for this matter is his longest crime free period since he was in his 20s."

Judge Haesler said prior to his arrest, Kinzett's "pattern of offending, jail, release, more offending and then more jail, was broken only by his release to bail", but given he had broken ties with criminal associates he was given leniency.

"His jail terms have reinforced his associations with other criminals making return to crime more likely," Judge Haesler said.

"He is at risk of re-offending but again, paradoxically, the longer he spends in jail the more likely it is that he will reoffend on release."

The court heard Kinzett grew up in southern Wollongong and struggled at school and was left functionally illiterate before he started using meth in his 20s. He is on a disability pension for depression and severe mood lability, and at 14 he lost an eye following a magpie attack.

He also suffered a number of serious assaults during custody.

Kinzett was also ordered to complete 50 hours of community service, must be supervised and obey the orders of Community Corrections who can direct him to continue seeing a psychologist and attend drug rehabilitation programs.

Michael Kominkovski and Casey Dekker were sentenced in March to intensive corrections orders, of one year and six months and one year and 10 months, respectively.

Frankcom was jailed for two years and five months with a non-parole period of 12 months.

Matthew Spinks will be sentenced in August.

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