Convicted Gladstone drug trafficker Tyson Jeffrey Ellis, 26, busted with marijuana while on parole
A convicted Central Queensland drug trafficker has been busted possessing drugs while on parole and subject to a suspended sentence.
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A convicted Central Queensland drug trafficker has been busted possessing drugs while on parole and subject to a suspended sentence.
Tyson Jeffrey Ellis, 26, was dealt with in the Supreme Court in Rockhampton on May 17, 2022, for breaching a suspended sentence handed down in April 2021 for two counts of drug trafficking, one count of possessing more than two grams of drugs, four counts of possessing drugs, two possess weapons of which one was altered, possess restricted drugs, possess suspected proceeds of drug crime, and drive without due care and attention.
Justice Graeme Crow sentenced Ellis in 2021 to four years prison, suspended after serving a further four months (until August 26, 2021) and operational for four years for the first trafficking charge.
He then gave him a three-year prison term for the second trafficking charge with parole release on August 26, 2021.
This week, Justice Peter Davis ordered the operational period of the suspended sentence be extended by 12 months after Ellis was busted with two marijuana buds weighing 0.31g and he failed to comply with police regarding a lawful search.
He was busted with the marijuana on January 22 in a park in Clinton.
It was concealed in a tobacco pouch in his shorts pocket.
Ellis had been charged on January 22, 2022, and then remanded in custody from February 11 after failing to comply with the search.
He spent 96 days in custody before appearing in the Supreme Court for the breach.
During the 2021 sentence, defence barrister Tom Polley said his client, who had an unfortunate upbringing, had been sober for five or six years and had been working in Hervey Bay as a bricklayer but lost his employment and his relationship broke down in early 2020, leaving Ellis without a job, partner or anywhere to live so he fell back into using drugs.
The court heard Ellis’ mother had drug problems and his father had alcohol issues.
Ellis started using marijuana due to his peers and had advanced to meth by the time he was 16.
Ellis’ criminal record included a district court sentence in 2015 for 17 supply charges.
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