A DRUG syndicate member who trafficked large amounts of methamphetamine into Mildura and made a "significant" profit will spend up to eight years and nine months behind bars.

Before the County Court in Melbourne, Matthew James Rowe pleaded guilty to trafficking 1.3kg of the drug ice between July and December 2019.

Rowe, now 34, was arrested in December 2019 as part of the Mallee divisional respo...