EXCLUSIVE
Three young women who all had boyfriends inside a maximum security prison banded together to smuggle heroin and buprenorphine behind bars.
The drugs were wrapped in yellow and pink water balloons and targeted at the jail’s black market where ‘bupe’, a heroin substitute, sells at a high price.
Rhylee Peta Stig, 24, who was pregnant at the time, was handling the drugs at the request of her then-boyfriend and father of her child.
The inmate, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was friends with two other prisoners with girlfriends outside Bathurst Correctional Complex, west of Sydney.
On Monday, Ms Stig pleaded guilty to drug charges and proceeds of crime offences in Campbelltown Local Court. She had previously been granted bail on an unrelated matter last year to give birth to her baby.
According to police facts seen by Daily Mail Australia, Ms Stig’s convicted criminal boyfriend told her to pick up drugs from one of the other men’s girlfriends before delivering it to another.
The facts say that at about 8.45am on Sunday December 3, 2023 Stig drove her silver Mitsubishi to a Bathurst 7/11 service station to meet ‘SK’ in her white Ford Ranger.
Rhylee Stig (above) and two other young women with boyfriends inside a maximum security prison banded together to smuggle heroin and buprenorphine into the jail
Stig, who was then pregnant to her jailhouse baby daddy, delivered the drugs wrapped inside pink water balloons to another woman who tried to smuggle them inside but got caught
Ms Stig, (above under arrest while pregnant), was granted bail on a different unrelated matter last year to give birth to her baby
Stig handed SK a small parcel and at 9am the woman entered Bathurst prison, where she was searched and ‘a small parcel wrapped in a pink coloured water balloon was seized from her person by police’.
It contained a smaller, yellow water balloon, which contained a small clear bag of heroin and a total of 64 buprenorphine strips wrapped in plastic.
The buprenorphine weighed 2.6g and the heroin, 0.18g.
According to the facts, after Stig’s boyfriend instructed her to collect bupe from the other woman, AK, Stig met her at a premises in Macquarie Fields on December 15, 2023 at 11.50am.
Police then stopped her on Lancaster Street, Ingleburn and searched her silver Mitsubishi and found a small parcel containing buprenorphine wrapped in a yellow water balloon inside a pink water balloon. The 100 Bupe strips weighed 4.88g.
Police also found $1,700 in $50 notes in a handbag.
On Monday, Campbelltown Local Court Magistrate Maryanne Higginson dismissed or withdrew four charges of drug supply and two charges of drug possession, as well as one charge of participate in a criminal group.
Stig, 24, pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing a prohibited drug, 4.88g of buprenorphine and 0.18g of heroin.
She also pleaded guilty to proceeds of crime on a ‘Form 1’ basis, meaning that her sentenced on that charge will be taken into account.
She will be sentenced on May 7.
