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A former daycare worker who dealt drugs via Snapchat has avoided going back to jail after she was caught with a glass pipe and cannabis.
Rachel Louise Strong appeared in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday for breaching the conditions of her suspended sentence.
Strong had previously received a suspended sentence of four years and six months in October 2022 after being convicted of drug trafficking.
Strong had been advertising and selling drugs through Snapchat in 2021 and inadvertently added an undercover police officer to his client list on the social media app.
Later, when police raided his home in Wynnum in Brisbane, they found a grow room with 17 cannabis plants.
Rachel Louise Strong (pictured) was sentenced to prison for drug trafficking
In October 2022, Strong pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, supply and possession of cocaine and MDMA, production of cannabis and possession of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, LSD and a Taser.
The court was told on Thursday that the breach of her suspended sentence came after she was found in possession of drugs and paraphernalia on October 14 and 19, 2023.
Strong was returned to custody on October 19 last year and those offenses were dealt with in the magistrates’ court. The court was informed that Strong was released on probation for her misdemeanor drug offense on March 15, 2024.
Judge Peter Davis ordered Strong’s parole date for his suspended sentence for drug trafficking to begin again on Thursday.
He ordered that Strong be released on parole beginning Thursday to be under the supervision of the parole board while she serves the remainder of her suspended sentence.
Ms Strong faced the Brisbane Supreme Court (pictured) on Thursday for breaching the conditions of her suspended sentence.
Judge Davis said Strong had “taken steps” for rehabilitation and was under a mental health plan during his stay in prison since October 2023.
“If you continue to get involved in drugs, you will be in and out of jail and your life will be ruined,” Judge Davis said.
‘You have to accept the fact that you can’t have anything to do with drugs, otherwise you’ll have everything to do with the law.
‘It’s in your hands. When someone in a situation like you obviously has a drug habit, having them supervised in the community is better than extending the operational period.’