Woman, 63, arrested three times this year gets $40K bail

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SARNIA – A Sarnia woman facing charges linked to two separate drug busts and the discovery of cash in a storage locker while she was in jail has been granted $40,000 bail.

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Shelley Campbell, 63, was one of two women charged with trafficking after Sarnia police said officers seized an estimated $13,000 in drugs during a March 27 search of a Cotterbury Street home. They both got bail, but Campbell was rearrested on new trafficking charges after police said officers raided a home on Conrad Street and an east Sarnia motel on Oct. 22 and found drugs worth nearly $6,000.

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In an update issued last week, police said they searched a storage locker on Devine Street they say is linked to Campbell and discovered almost $132,200 in cash, believed to be proceeds of drug trafficking.

Campbell, who’s been in jail since late October, had a bail hearing Tuesday on all three sets of charges. All evidence heard at the hearing, things said about Campbell and the reasons justice of the peace Helen Gale approved her for bail are covered by a publication ban that will be in effect until her trials are over.

In the meantime, she’ll be living with her two sureties, her son and his partner, under strict house arrest with GPS tracking. She can’t leave the home unless she’s with one of her sureties or going to court.

Campbell and the couple are both on the hook for $20,000 each if she doesn’t follow the rules, which also includes a ban on talking to Nathalie Landry-Sutherland, 59, her co-accused from the first case, and two other witnesses. She also can’t go to the Cotterbury Street house that was raided or Sarnia Self Storage on Devine Street.

Both Campbell and Landry-Sutherland, who is only facing charges in one of the cases, are due back in court on Dec. 11.

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In the first case, officers searched a home in the 100 block of Cotterbury Street on March 27 and seized fentanyl, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, ecstasy, large quantities of prescription opioids, and more than $2,000 in Canadian and U.S. cash, Sarnia police said at the time.

Campbell and Landry-Sutherland were arrested and both charged with six counts of possessing drugs for trafficking and possessing property obtained by crime, police said.

In the second case, officers searching the home on Conrad Street and the East Court Motel on Oct. 22 found nearly 113 grams of methamphetamine worth nearly $6,000 and almost $2,000 in cash, police said.

Campbell was charged with possessing meth for the purpose of trafficking, possessing property obtained by crime worth more than $5,000, and two counts of breaching bail, police said.

While in jail, she was rearrested last week on a new charge of possessing property obtained by crime worth more than $5,000 linked to the storage locker.

tbridge@postmedia.com

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