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Home detention in final Kronik shop sentencing
Ten months of home detention has been imposed at the sentencing for the last of those arrested for the Operation Shadow drugs investigation.
Twenty-five-year-old Natasha Anne Patricia Moutter was a shop assistant at the Kronik shop in Christchurch where she was involved in selling the banned party pill, BZP.
She admitted a charge of conspiracy to sell that drug and also admitted supplying the class A drug LSD after facilitating a drug sale to an undercover police officer.
At Moutter?s Christchurch District Court sentencing, Judge Raoul Neave said she had a carried out positive changes in her life, and now held a responsible job.
She had become involved in the sale of BZP through her job at the shop ?and perhaps a naive attitude to what it was you were being asked to do?.
The pre-sentence report referred to ?a disturbing reliance on cannabis? but he said she was willing to address her drug issues and ordered her to carry out counselling and treatment as part of the six months of post-release conditions for her home detention.
Others charged have received sentences ranging from home detention to a four-year jail term for the shop owner, 46-year-old Paul Adam Richardson. The arrests were made in a series of raids on the shp and other properties in December 2010.
