By Ava Benny-Morrison
Tony Martino Campa cast an image of a successful and cashed-up professional with his brand new Audi cars and talk of exclusive guest lists.
But behind the code talk and flash fleet, Campa, 38, from Bondi Junction, was a car salesman and a drug dealer.
Police surveillance photographs capture Tony Martino Campa in the Sydney CBD.Credit: NSW Police
His operation, in which he used cars from a north shore Audi dealership to drop off drugs, including cocaine, around Sydney's CBD, came to a dramatic halt last year.
Campa was unwittingly dealing some of the drugs to an undercover police officer as part of a protracted NSW Drug Squad investigation.
Police surveillance photographs capture Campa in the CBD. He was caught selling ice to an undercover police officer. Credit: NSW Police
Campa, who has worked at some of the city's top-end car dealerships, was sentenced to at least three years' jail last month for drug supply.
According to his LinkedIn account, he held "pre-owned sales executive" positions at Mercedes Benz in Alexandria and Parramatta before he took up a salesman job at Audi in Mosman in April 2015.
Police claimed that Campa used cars from that dealership to drop off drugs to his customers in the city, in the hope the luxury vehicles would help deflect suspicion. There is no suggestion his employer knew what he was using the cars for.
Facts tendered in court state that Campa supplied more than 10 grams of cocaine to various people around the city between October 2015 and February 2016.
Police surveillance photographs capture Tony Campa in the CBD. Credit: NSW Police
He would employ "code" during text exchanges with customers and used a conversation about adding people to a guest list as a cover for suppling the drugs.
"Hey mate, are you in the city?" one text message Campa received in December 2015 stated. "Need a few on the guest list."
Campa, an Audi car salesman, borrowed vehicles from the dealership to drop cocaine around the city.Credit: NSW Police
Campa replied: "I'm just at dinner but I'll be free after 9.30pm. How many people do you want on the guest list?"
The customer responded "4".
Campa turned up in Pitt Street that night with four grams of cocaine.
In another exchange, a woman sent a text to Campa, saying: "4 guests confirmed, maybe 5 will let you know shortly."
After that, Campa called another dealer and asked if "Cindy" - a code word for cocaine - was free for five or six hours that night.
After dropping off the cocaine in the city, Campa sent his bank details to the customer by text, followed by: "All good, enjoy the wedding tonight."
Various intercepted text messages showed Campa supplied 10 grams of cocaine over the course of four months.
He was also caught selling more than 330 grams of ice to an undercover officer. The pair would meet in car parks in the city or carry out the deals in each other's vehicles.
Cash - usually up to $10,400 at a time - would be handed over before the drugs, sometimes hidden in cigarette packs or envelopes, was exchanged.
At one meeting point in a cinema car park on Kent Street, Campa handed the officer the keys to a white Audi Q5, where two ounces of ice were hidden in the centre console.
On other occasions, Campa had the keys to a blue Audi Q5, a black A5 and a silver A3 - each worth up to $60,000.
His trade came to an end in March this year, when detectives arrested him at a Pyrmont apartment.
Campa was sentenced a maximum of five years jail with a non-parole period of three years.
A spokeswoman for Audi Australia said the company "does not condone any illegal behaviour".