Zar-Lea Peta Marshall pleaded guilty to a raft of offences including firearms, drugs and driving matters committed between July 2019 and November 2020 and was sentenced to a total of 15 months jail

Magistrate Simon Brown ruled that Marshall was not a suitable candidate for a Drug Treatment Order-the alternative to an actual jail term and activated the six-month suspended sentence.

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"I am not confident an order [DTO] would be adhered to or that a serious commitment to rehabilitation would be made," he said.

The mother of two children, who wept throughout the sentencing hearing, also received one months' jail for two counts of evading police and further eight months for the latest offences.

She had six months of the eight months jail suspended on the condition that she commits no imprisonable offence for 18 months.

The court heard that police found a shortened shotgun under her pillow as well as ammunition although it was submitted it was held on behalf of others.

Mr Brown said the vast majority of her offending was related to drugs.

"You have five prior offences for selling drugs from 2014," he said.

"You have four offences under the Road Safety Act and three priors for driving while disqualified.

"The selling of drugs is serious offending particularly where methylamphetamine is concerned. You are a repeat and habitual offender and started selling within days of receiving a suspended jail sentence and despite being charged you continued to do so.

"It seems frankly that you are an incorrigible offender and for one of the periods it seems you operated an organised and demand-driven business," he said.

The sentence was backdated to November 3 when she was arrested for failing to appear in court.