How Sarah's high life of luxury from selling sex toys exploded when she tried to do a deal worth $300,000 at a Melbourne service station Party girl attempted to spend $165,000 on meth worth $300,000 Linked African community leader's international drug syndicate READ MORE: One-armed sex attacker free again just days after nationwide alert By PAUL SHAPIRO FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 03:19 EDT, 25 March 2025 | Updated: 03:19 EDT, 25 March 2025 e-mail View comments A former sex toys sales rep has swapped her flash life of luxury for a jail cell after she was convicted over her role in an international drug syndicate. Party girl Sarah Baines was sentenced to the maximum 11 years for conspiring to traffick a large commercial quantity of methamphetamine. She was also convicted of trafficking GHB.
Baines, 33, attempted to purchase 1kg of meth for $165,000 at a service station deal in Melbourne 's north on June 22, 2022. She had plotted with African community leader Abdul Diallo and another man Darren Hafner to purchase the drugs worth almost $300,000 at street value. Investigators linked the conspirators via phone intercepts and established the trio had been in communication since May 1.
Diallo, an ex-hospital staffer and Amazon delivery driver, despatched a minion to the service station with a meth sample for Baines but the deal fell through when that minion halted the transaction for unknown reasons. Authorities raided Baines' plush Southbank Boulevard high-rise apartment o.
