How I turned to METH to cure my selfie addiction: Financial planner, 22, who posted 20,000 Instagram pics admits becoming an ice user and dealer when she went 'cold turkey' on social media - as cops find 3kg of deadly date rape drug in her car
A 22-year-old financial planner who cured her social media addiction only to turn to using and selling meth and GHB has pleaded guilty to trafficking a commercial quantity of ice.
Madeline Scott was stopped by police after not indicating while doing a U-turn in Langwarrin, on Melbourne's southeast fringe, about 4am on December 18.
The former financial planner from Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula, was pulled over and her vehicle searched after officers noticed an ice pipe hanging out of her pink handbag.
Madeline Scott , 22, was stopped by police after not indicating while doing a U-turn on Langwarrin, in Melbourne about 4am on December 18
Scott questioned police as to why she should let them search her vehicle and accused them of targeting her because, 'I am an ice addict', Herald Sun reported.
Officers located 3kg of GHB in Gatorade bottles, methamphetamines, a large sum of cash, zip-lock bags, scales and a 'tick book' in Scott's car.
During the search, Scott tried deleting messages off her phone before an officer stopped her and she was taken to the Frankston Police Station.
She confessed to selling drugs to clients in person or on the internet and according to phone records, had been dealing for about six weeks at the time of her arrest.
She explained to police that she resorted to selling drugs to support her own ice addiction and that she didn't 'really make a profit out of it'.
'If I don't sell it then I don't have enough money to smoke it,' Scott told police.
'There are often times when I’ve got a whole more ice than everybody else does so if there was people around me and they wanted it and they wanted to buy it off me then I would.
'I can profit in the end, I don’t really think I make that much of a profit, to be honest with you.'
Scott explained to police that she resorted to selling drugs to support her own ice addiction and that she didn't 'really make a profit out of it'
Scott also told police that her clients were local but if there was going to be a 'big sale' she would travel further.
She explained that the 3kg of GHB found in her car was purchased in Melbourne and bought in that quantity so she did not have to 'keep going back and forth'.
She said that her drug habit emerged after she went 'cold turkey' from using Instagram, where she had posted 20,000 selfies.
Appearing in County Court on Friday, Scott pleaded guilty to charges including trafficking a commercial quantity of drugs.
She was remanded in custody and is due for sentencing on October 30.