The incident occurred when Griffith resident 47-year-old Susen Lyn Grandi visited the jail on Saturday March 9, driving to other women to visit an inmate.

During Grandi's appearance in Local Court on June 26, her legal representative Piers Blomfield outlined an "unusual set of circumstances" which explained she was not, in fact, trying to smuggle the methamphetamine and cannabis in.

Grandi instead dropped the two women off at the front of the building and drove off, leaving the two women to enter on foot.

A short time later, the court heard, one of the two women called Grandi to come back bringing another shirt.

The 47-year-old drover her Mazda back to the correctional centre, and was informed her car and bags had to be searched by staff before entering the facility.

Staff found the drugs in her bag, which later weighed in at 1.7 grams of methamphetamine alongside 2.5 grams of cannabis at the police station.

"She had no intention of taking it into the jail," Mr Blomfield explained.

"She wasn't booked in for a visit, her daughter was."

Yet magistrate Joy Boulos said she had sent people straight to jail for similar charges.

"Although you did not enter the jail, you were near the vicinity," she told Grandi.

She said while it wasn't the worst she'd seen, Grandi was starting to accumulate history.

Magistrate Boulos convicted Grandi, giving her to a 18 month Community Corrections Order for possessing methamphetamine, and a $300 fine for the cannabis possession.

Her bonds for driving while suspended were both revoked and given 12 moth community corrections orders and thee months disqualification.

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