Dylan Peter Mackinlay: Man involved in Chinchilla siege caught supplying ice

A Chinchilla man was serving a term of probation for threatening police with a machete when officers caught him supplying meth.

Dylan Mackinlay Dalby Court

A Chinchilla man has pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying methamphetamine at the Dalby District Court on Thursday.

Dylan Peter Mackinlay faced court following the incidents on the April 12 and 13 2023 where he supplied “half a point” (. 05 grams) of the drug on both days to the same person.

Mackinlay was on an 18-month probation at the time from an incident in September 2022 where he threatened police with a machete during an almost 24-hour siege at his Chinchilla property.

The court was told Mackinlay had relapsed on methamphetamine and had been doing the drugs at his property with the person he’d supplied them to.

Judge Horneman-Wren criticised Mackinlay for his decision to supply dangerous drugs to another person and said “someone supplied meth to you for the first time at one point and your life spiralled and now you’ve done the same with someone else.”

He also said while he “hadn’t supplied in the traditional sense but he had expressed a willingness to give someone the drugs.”

When sentencing Judge Horneman-Wren took into account Mackinlay’s early guilty plea as well as his decision to move away from Chinchilla and get clean.

He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.