Dwayne Martin Munzer pleads guilty to public nuisance, driving while disqualified at Cannonvale

A Whitsunday man has paid the price for taking the law into his own hands to clean up his neighbourhood’s alleged issues with juvenile drug use.

A Whitsunday father who took the law into his own hands in relation to an alleged drug dealer has been sentenced to three months’ jail.

Events worker Dwayne Martin Munzer drove while disqualified to confront a man working as a trolley-pusher at a Cannonvale shopping centre on August 27 after a neighbour told him the man had been supplying drugs to kids living on his street.

Proserpine Magistrates Court heard Munzer punched the man in the face after an argument in the shopping centre car park.

Dwayne Martin Munzer pleaded guilty to disqualified driving and committing public nuisance at Cannonvale in August 2021. Picture: Facebook

He pleaded guilty to disqualified driving and committing public nuisance, telling the court he was “simply just trying to talk to” the man but things took a turn when the man struck Munzer’s Ford Falcon FG with a trolley and “banged up the car quite badly”.

“The trolley guy is well known in our street and I have kids in our street and they’re all walking around off their heads stealing from backyards and carrying on ... It’s not very good for our street,” Munzer said.

“There was an old guy who’s been beat up by one of his young fellas and it was all drug-related.”

The court heard Munzer had a ‘serious’ criminal and traffic history including drug-related offences. Picture: Facebook

Magistrate James Morton said Munzer should have reported the man to police instead of making a “citizen’s call” at his workplace, especially as he was unlicensed at the time.

He questioned Munzer going after an alleged drug-dealer when he himself had a history of illicit drug use, telling him “judge not lest ye be judged”, to which Munzer responded “I’m not on drugs anymore” and “I like to think I’m not cast under the same stone as I once was”.

Taking into account previous convictions for disqualified driving and drug-driving, Mr Morton sentenced Munzer to three months’ jail wholly suspended for 15 months, fined him $300 and disqualified his licence for two years.

“Leave the police to do the investigations,” Mr Morton said.

Convictions were recorded.