An Albury hip-hop dance school teacher has owned-up to her role in running a large-scale cannabis supply network.
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Mistee Teresa Royal has decided against fighting the police case after pleading guilty to six counts of supplying a prohibited drug.
Royal also pleaded guilty this week to a single count of concealing an indictable offence.
Her decision to plead-up over the distribution of several kilograms of cannabis meant the prosecution dropped a host of other charges.
Royal, 30, will now face sentence in the District Court sittings to begin in Albury on August 14.
Albury Local Court heard previously how Royal supplied lower-level dealers with large amounts of marijuana that police said would have been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars if it was sold in single-gram deals.
Her crimes were detected as a result of work done by the NSW Police’s Strike Force Bara.
The court was told that Royal was caught talking openly about her drug-dealing in conversations that were tapped by police as part of the operation.
Her role was simple. She was the one who operated a syndicate of up to a dozen people.
They sold the drugs on her behalf, with Royal having got the cannabis from Sydney.
Another person involved in the syndicate has already been jailed for the role he played.
In May, David George Edwin Hawkins, 53, was sentenced to at least 10 months behind bars after supplying more than 24 kilograms of cannabis over eight months.
The court heard how another syndicate member gave Royal $2000 every three to four days, though lower-level dealers made little money.
