A 42-year-old Blenheim woman has been sentenced to home detention for supplying critical ingredients to make methamphetamine.
Ingrid Ruth Pedersen was sentenced to six months' home detention and ordered to complete 80 hours' community work when she appeared in the Blenheim District Court yesterday on a charge of supplying precursor substances to manufacture methamphetamine and supplying material to manufacture methamphetamine.
Judge Bruce Davidson said the items Pedersen bought, including iodine, were critical in the manufacture of methamphetamine, but there was no real commercial value because the items totalled about $200.
Crown prosecutor Hugh Boyd-Wilson said Pedersen supplied iodine and fuelite to a methamphetamine maker on multiple occasions and over a period of about a year.
It was not known how much of the drug could have been made using the ingredients because a report had not come back from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research which analyses illicit drugs, he said.
Home detention was not a sufficient deterrent because the offending happened on multiple occasions and Pedersen knowingly supplied the items to a third party who directly manufactured the drug, he said.
Defence counsel Rob Harrison said Pedersen took herself off the methadone programme and substituted that for the drug P; she had since freed herself of the physical addiction.
Pedersen had the support of her family and aside from these charges had been a good member of the community, he said.
Judge Davidson said Pedersen knew what the ingredients were for and told police she would receive payment for the material.
Pedersen's offending was ongoing, inherently premeditated and she supplied critical components to make a drug "which has caused so much damage in the community", he said.
Pedersen would be more likely to get the help and guidance she "desperately" needed within the community, he said.
As part of her sentence, Pedersen was also ordered to undertake alcohol and drug counselling.
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