An old school friend co-opted a Mackay mine worker into a statewide methamphetamine trafficking operation with alleged links to an outlaw motorcycle gang, a court has heard. Former Rural View man Shannon Matthew Hita, 31, was recruited to act as bagman and courier, ferrying drugs and people the length of the Queensland coast, and storing kilograms of meth at his house. He pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court on Friday to five offences, having moved to Brisbane with family after he was charged with his role in the ring. They included trafficking in ice, possessing more than 840g of ice, possessing Schedule 1 dangerous drugs, cocaine, possessing cash suspected of being the proceeds of a drug offence, and possessing a thing used in the commission of a crime.