Jasin Devlin: Fitness instructor sentenced for dealing MDMA

A popular Sunshine Coast man’s history of partying and drug abuse has been laid bare during his sentencing over drug dealing that spiralled after he lost his job.

A Sunshine Coast fitness instructor dealt party-drug MDMA and cannabis via the gay hook-up application Grindr, a court has heard.

Sippy Downs man Jason Devlin, 41, was arrested on April 30 last year after a police raid at his address uncovered a cornucopia of drugs and drug paraphernalia.

He made an unsuccessful bail application in Maroochydore Magistrates Court the following day, May 1, and has spent the intervening period remanded in custody.

Sippy Downs drug dealer Jasin Devlin, 41. Picture: Facebook

In Brisbane Supreme Court on Wednesday, Devlin pleaded guilty to nine counts of supplying a dangerous drug and one count each of possessing a Schedule 1 dangerous drug, a dangerous drug, a controlled drug, a restricted drug, among other minor drug charges.

He also pleaded guilty to refusing police access to his mobile phone.

The court heard the search warrant uncovered in Devlin's bedroom 6.08g of MDMA with a 70 per cent purity; 71g of cannabis; digital scales; a glass pipe; a tablet of Lyrica (i.e. pregabalin); and a number of alprazolam tablets.

Devlin declined a police interview, the court heard.

Subsequent investigations revealed Devlin supplied 28 capsules of MDMA, 1g of MDMA rocks, and about an ounce of cannabis to a man who initially contacted him on Grindr and the man's friends.

These drug supplies occurred over a five-week period from February 29 last year.

The Crown accepted there was a mixed commercial-personal purpose to Devlin's drug possession.

Defence counsel Jessica Horne told the court his client had a good work history in the fitness, retail and insurance industries.

He was working for Youi insurance at the time of his arrest, she said, and was working as a group fitness instructor up until the COVID-19 pandemic.

The loss of this job caused him to "spiral" and "get in over his head", Ms Horne said.

Devlin first became involved in drugs from a young age, beginning on Rohypnol (i.e. benzodiazepine), cannabis and speed.

He was previously incarcerated in 2003 for four months for credit card fraud among other offences, the court heard.

He was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment with court-ordered parole after time served, a period of 342 days.

 

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Originally published as Fitness instructor used Grindr app to deal drugs