Brock Andrew Delinecourt, 22, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Supreme Court yesterday to seven charges including one count of trafficking in dangerous drugs between May 31, 2008, and December 22, 2011.

Crown prosecutor Greg Cummings said Delinecourt was involved in trafficking cocaine, speed, ecstasy and marijuana and had a “predilection for violence”, assaulting customers who did not pay him on time.

“By the time he was taken into custody, he was able to get fairly large quantities of drugs fairly easily,” Mr Cummings said.

“It would be of no comfort to your honour at all that when he was arrested… he had ammunition, a knife and more drugs.”

Mr Cummings said during the offending period, Delinecourt had grossed $254,000 tax free and netted about $109,000 from the drug sales.

Defence barrister John Fraser said his client had fully co-operated with police.

“He engaged in a very, very lengthy record of interview and it was full and it was frank,” Mr Fraser said.

“His admissions go well beyond what the police could prove at the time of apprehension.

“When he first became involved in selling for Moran, he said he was very much addicted to (marijuana).”

Mr Fraser said Delinecourt was keen to turn his life around and had been accepted to study at the University of Southern Queensland, had been attending Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous and, upon his release, had been offered a job to work at a franchise of Brumby’s Bakery. Justice Duncan McMeekin said police had nabbed Delinecourt after he did a number of drug deals with under cover police during their investigation of Moran, who is yet to be sentenced.

When asked why he got involved in the drug trade, Delinecourt told police he was “young and dumb” and he “needed the money” and that trafficking was “an easy way to earn money”. “And obviously it’s an easy way to go to jail too,” Justice McMeekin said.

“These drugs can kill and you were involved in marketing these drugs most likely to people that are of similar age to you.” Justice McMeekin sentenced Delinecourt to six years jail with parole eligibility on March 11, 2014.

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