A HAMILTON mother charged with trafficking ice again has been remanded in custody despite police not opposing bail.
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Bianca Johnson, 30, of Dunbar Court, unsuccessfully applied for bail in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court and was remanded in custody until November 29.
Ms Johnson claimed the drugs were not hers and another man in court repeatedly said they were his when magistrate Leonard Brear remanded her in custody.
Hamilton police executed a search warrant at Lonsdale Motel in Lonsdale Street at 11.30pm on Sunday, finding Ms Johnson, her partner and their two young children in room number 10.
There was cannabis in a make-up bag in the bathroom, a green notebook relating to dealing ice, electronic scales, two ice pipes, ice in both a make-up container and a clear bag and $740 in cash in a purse.
The total weight of the ice was 6.4 grams and 13.9g of cannabis.
Ms Johnson was jailed for trafficking ice for two months in February this year on drugs charges and is currently on a community corrections order.
It was claimed in court that Ms Johnson was doing well on her CCO with a focus on her drug assessment and treatment.
But the magistrate disagreed, saying she wasn’t going well if she had been charged with more offending.
Solicitor Belinda Northey said it was not a strong police case, the drugs were believed to belong to someone else and Ms Johnson’s partner was in a difficult situation as he faced serious driving charges in Hamilton court on Wednesday which could result in a prison term.
She said the family had gone to the motel as a break/holiday and to explain the situation involving Ms Johnson’s partner to the children.
Ms Northey claimed Ms Johnson’s mother’s ex-partner bought luggage to the motel and that the drugs were his.
Mr Brear refused bail saying that Ms Johnson was an unacceptable risk of offending.
He said meth amphetamine was the scourge of the community and involved in deaths on the roads, assaults incidents, mental health conditions and the aggravation of such conditions, all of which wrecked lives.
The magistrate that Ms Johnson had a history of trafficking ice, the message had not got through to her and her children were a secondary consideration to her and their presence an aggravating factor in the new charges.