The biggest drug stings across the Illawarra 2021

These convicted Illawarra criminals and accused drug suppliers are the ones who have allegedly profited from selling a range of drugs including cocaine, cannabis and methylamphetamine to people in the Illawarra.

Investigators work hard to nab those responsible for orchestrating the drug networks with many alleged organisations being dismantled this year.

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Westman brothers

Twin bothers Joel and Flinn Westman were sentenced in May to more than four and three years inside jail cells, respectively, for supplying a commercial quantity of drugs.

The charges related to the supply of 308 grams of MDMA - 4200 ecstasy pills - across five deals with four to undercover officers and 557.2grams of cocaine over six deals with five being to covert cops between July 17 and August 16, 2019.

The brothers, aged 19 at the time, didn't lead a life of luxury while establishing their Illawarra drug supply business and were largely indebted to their upline supplier during their burgeoning trade. They came under notice in June 2019 before their drug dealing was monitored by police with controlled operations. Investigators also netted the runners within the brothers' drug network.

Bojlevksi father and son

An extensive police investigation allegedly uncovered a Primbee father and son's "sophisticated enterprise" of safe houses, encrypted phones and money laundering to on-supply cocaine and cannabis from a Queensland Vietnamese organised crime group.

Robert Bojlevski, 50, and son Daniel Bojlevski were refused bail following their arrest in September for serious drug crimes after Australian Federal Police with state and local police raided their home.

Police allege the Bojlevski, along with their family matriarch Jannette Marsh, directed a "cohort of family and close criminal associates in the supply of prohibited drugs" and used encrypted ciphr phones to orchestrate their day-to-day activities and to avoid police detection.

The father and son came under notice when Queensland police started investigating Vietnamese criminal networks responsible for the trafficking and distribution of illegal drugs, mainly cannabis, between NSW and Queensland in 2019. Their cases remain before the court.

Feras Abbas-Hamid and Suzanna Ristevska

Berkeley man Feras Abdul-Hamid is accused of supplying drugs and was refused bail in September to enter a drug rehabilitation program despite his father offering a $450,000 surety.

Police allege Abdul-Hamid supplied one gram of meth on multiple occasions between May and July this year, primarily from his home in Berkeley, which he allegedly operated as a drug premise.

Police also allege he supplied drugs on an ongoing basis for financial gain in April and between May and July participated in a criminal group, and also dealt with the proceeds of crime of more than $28,000.

Abdul-Feras' wife Suzanna Ristevksa, 41, was refused bail in September after she was one of five people to be arrested as part of early morning police raids following an ongoing investigation into an alleged methamphetamine and heroin ring operating between the Illawarra and Sydney.

Ten search warrants were carried out at homes in Coniston, Berkeley and Sydney following where 1.5kg of methamphetamine, 340g of cocaine, heroin, two unauthorised prohibited pistols and about $100,000 in cash was seized. The estimated potential street value of the drugs was $1 million. There case remains before the court.

Kristina Krkovska and Lida Milenkovska

A months-long police investigation allegedly revealed a mother and daughter selling drugs via encrypted messages on their phones from their Warrawong home in a "planned and organised" business.

Kristine Krkovska was refused bail over 11 charges related to supplying drugs in October.

Krkvoska and her mother Lida Milenkovska, 54, had their home raided after Lake Illawarra police monitored their alleged sales of heroin and methylamphetamine since April. Their cases remain before the court.

Beric Burns and Natascha Consigli

A Warilla couple accused of trafficking methamphetamine and cannabis across much of southern NSW were busted mid-count as they tallied up almost a million dollars in drug profits kept inside an Albion Park Rail storage unit, a court heard in December.

Police allege former rugby league identity Beric 'Bez' Burns, 53, and his 47-year-old girlfriend, Shellharbour City Council cleaner Natascha Consigli, were responsible for directing a "sophisticated" drug syndicate that had tentacles stretching for hundreds of kilometres.

It is alleged Burns was the kingpin of the criminal syndicate, which they claim was responsible for the supply of "mid-to-large quantities of methamphetamine and cannabis throughout the western and southern regions". It is alleged Consigli acted as Burns' delivery driver and also with day-to-day operations.

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