A Mayfield man will spend seven months in jail after failing to take a chance to stay out of jail instead of committing more offences.
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Jake Anthony Mullins, 30, had a drug treatment order cancelled by Magistrate Sharon Cure which meant he must serve 103 days in jail.
After initially pleading not guilty he changed his plea to guilty on further charges on Thursday and was sentenced to four months jail-on top of the 103 days.
On June 2 last year he drove in Invermay with a drug in his system. The court heard that Mullins drove whilst disqualified on Freshwater Point Road at Legana on September 29, 2021, and stole petrol worth $30.
He was also driving an unregistered and uninsured car.
In November last year, Mullins was caught in possession of a controlled drug bupranorphine, cannabis and possession of a restricted substance metazapam and diazepam.
On January 11 this year he drove while disqualified in Mackay St, Mayfield with an illicit drug in his system.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of hinder conveyance on January 12 in relation to the drug test.
Last year he was sentenced to the drug treatment order on a range of charges including evading police and several firearm charges with a six-month custodial component.
A drug treatment order allows a convicted criminal to avoid jail if they comply with the terms of the order which centre around ceasing the use of drugs.
Ms Cure told Mullins she would give him the chance of undergoing a drug treatment order, to allow him to move past his drug addiction.
"I saw in your report that you are motivated by strong family ties, to move away from where you are at the moment," Ms Cure said.
"You have got to change what you do, and who you see ... and I think you know who those people are.
"If you hang around with the same old crew, you will get the same result. We see that over and over."
Mullins spent 77 days in custody after being arrested in June for evading police in a stolen car, with two shortened shotguns in the back of the vehicle. The remaining 103 days were suspended for 18 months.
The Department of Community Corrections sought that the drug treatment order be cancelled early this year.
The court heard in February that Mullins had failed to attend urinalysis required under the order and sought an unapproved change of address to share a house with a person with whom he had once shared a prison cell.
On one occasion Mullins claimed he could not attend court because he had recorded a positive RAT for COVID-19.
The next week the court heard that he had since recorded a negative PCR test.
Ms Cure issued a warrant for his arrest when he failed to appear in court.
Mullins home was raided by Tasmania Police's Operation Raptor when three guns, and stolen property worth a total of $10,250 was found.
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Nick Clark
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
