Australia's least likely ice user: Innocent-looking mum, 26, living a seemingly quiet life is busted with drugs and admits smoking meth after being caught in police sting
- Emma Jackson's home was raided last month in covert police operation
- Police found 9g of marijuana, two phones to order drugs and a bong
- Mother had been messaging drug dealer in Woombye on the Sunshine Coast
- In court on Wednesday, she pleaded guilty to possess dangerous drugs
A young mother has been caught up in a huge covert police operation to bring down drug dealers.
Emma Jackson's home was raided last month after she was linked to a major dealer in Woombye on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Police tracked down the 26-year-old nursing assistant after she messaged the dealer 52 times to buy marijuana and ice from him.
Caught red-handed: Emma Jackson's home was raided last month after the nursing assistant (pictured) was linked to a major dealer in Woombye on the Sunshine Coast
Busted: Jackson (pictured) was ordered to pay a $450 good behaviour bond lasting four months
In the raid on her home they found nine grams of marijuana, two phones to order drugs, and a bong, reported the Sunshine Coast Daily.
Jackson, who has a four-year-old son, said in Maroochydore Magistrates Court yesterday she was not the target of the operation and vowed to attend a drugs diversion program.
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She pleaded guilty to possess dangerous drugs, drug utensils and property suspected of having been used in a drug offence.
Jackson was ordered to pay a $450 good behaviour bond that will remain in force for four months.
It comes as a new deadly drug known as 'monkey dust' which has made some users jump off buildings sweeps the Australian party scene.
Police tracked down the 26-year-old nursing assistant after she messaged the dealer 52 times to buy majijuana and ice from him
Jackson (pictured with her son) pleaded guilty to possess dangerous drugs, drug utensils and property suspected of having been used in a drug offence
The drug, also referred to as bath salts or MDPV, is increasingly being used at the nation's music festivals and on dance floors.
The potent drug is a powerful derivative of methamphetamine, or ice, and is also cheap, with a street value of as little as $10 per dose.
But expert toxicologists warn 'monkey dust' is dangerous and causes wild hallucinations and impressions of invincibility.
A warning has been issued over the use of 'monkey dust' (pictured), also known as bath salts or MDPV, which is increasingly being consumed by Australian partygoers
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