A man who was selling drugs to fund his own habit has been sentenced to five months' jail, wholly suspended.
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Cameron Alan McLarty Gillies pleaded guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance and using a controlled drug after the manager of Lonnies nightclub spotted the 24-year-old selling MDMA and MDA pills and capsules to patrons on August 12 last year.
Gillies was escorted into the venue's staff room by security and the police were called.
The drug dealer attempted to throw away the drugs - including 44 pills and 14 capsules - but they were found.
He also had $219 in cash from sales.
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An analysis of Gillies' phone revealed he'd been selling similar quantities of the same drugs every weekend for the past month.
During sentencing, Justice Robert Pearce said it was in Gillies' favour that he co-operated with police.
"Since this happened you have moved back to Smithton to live with your mother and step-father," he said.
"That means that you have disengaged from the drug associates you had when you lived and worked in this area."
Gillies was ordered to pay the costs of the drug analysis which was $2310, as well as $4000 for the money he would've made selling about 50 pills at $20 each for four weekends. The $269 in cash was also fortified.
"Yours was not a large scale or sophisticated operation but your intention was to profit from and perpetuate the culture of social drug use, often dangerous, which is to be strongly condemned and discouraged," Justice Pearce said.
