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A LAUNCESTON man who connected known drug users to a new methylamphetamine supplier has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, but his lawyer said Alistair Neil May was at the bottom of whatever drug ring he had become involved in.
May, 32, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Launceston yesterday to either arranging or carrying out four drug deals between his acquaintances and his supplier in January and February last year.
Crown prosecutor John Ransom said the methylamphetamine May helped to sell was siphoned off from $128,000 worth of the drug bought wholesale by a member of the Launceston chapter of the Rebels motorcycle club and distributed through bikie networks throughout the North and North-West.
Police began Operation Dorothy in November 2010 to investigate the $800,000 drug trafficking ring.
May was arrested as part of that operation after police searched his house on July 25 last year.
He told police that he arranged the deals after his supplier asked him to put them in contact with other buyers.
May said that he did not know that one of the buyers he had lined up was under 18.
May also pleaded guilty to using methylamphetamine and cannabis, cultivating four cannabis plants the year before, possessing cannabis seeds, possessing a smoking device and unlawfully possessing ammunition.
``His intention with these two pieces of ammunition was to make a necklace,'' Mr Ransom said.
Defence counsel Evan Hughes said May had used drugs since he was 14 but had defeated his addiction in the past 18 months.
Mr Hughes said May had no idea of the size of the trafficking operation he had become involved in, and said he was just acting to connect contacts who wanted drugs with those who could supply them.
May will be sentenced by Justice Shan Tennent tomorrow.