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Emily Arena, 25, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to a rolled-up charge of trafficking meth, cocaine and MDMA.
Arena and her former boyfriend were arrested at their Flinders Lane Airbnb on September 11 last year.
Police allege they found Arena and her former boyfriend in bed together, and a stack of cash and drugs after raiding the Flinders House apartment just after 9am.
Investigators seized meth, cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, $33,500 and a purple iPhone in a “glittery” case which belonged to Arena.
Arena’s phone contained multiple messages which linked the former exotic dancer to her drug dealing racket.
The court heard the messages indicated a “regular (and) organised poly-substance trafficking business in conjunction with and reporting to (the former boyfriend)”.
Arena told a customer who owed cash for drugs that “... doesn’t want me to tic anymore”.
The messages also revealed Arena was slinging bags (grams) of pure or...