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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

'Charlie and the narcotic factory': how fast food worker used hotel rooms to supply drugs

A fast food worker ran an encrypted group chat called "Charlie and the narcotic factory" as part of her operation supplying cocaine, MDMA, cannabis and magic mushrooms out of Newcastle hotel rooms.

Tiarna Hobbs-Ladd, now 22, was working casually at McDonald's and staying in a hotel on Hunter Street when cleaners found a large quantity of drugs in her room on March 20 last year.

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