Jake William Dwan trafficked meth in Warwick over seven-month period
A little boy and his mother are without their dad and husband this Christmas after he was jailed for trafficking drugs while on parole for trafficking.
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A little boy and his mother are without their dad and husband this Christmas after he was jailed for trafficking drugs while on parole for trafficking drugs.
Jake William Dwan had been jailed for three years but released on immediate parole after pleading guilty before Toowoomba Supreme Court in October 2017 to peddling ice, ecstasy and cannabis in the Warwick area over a six week period in 2016.
The now 25-year-old was subject to that parole order when he was caught trafficking primarily meth, but occasionally cannabis, over a seven month period from June 27, 2019, Crown prosecutor Nicole Friedewald told the same court on Tuesday.
Dwan had a customer base of 20 people in the Warwick and surrounding district. Though it was accepted he was feeding his own meth habit, there had been some commercial element to the trafficking as Dwan had boosted his bank account by $54,000 over the same period despite the fact he was on Centrelink payments, Ms Friedewald said.
With his wife and nine-month-old son, parents and grandparent looking on in court, Dwan pleaded guilty to trafficking and associated drug offences.
His barrister Jeff Hunter said his client had been clean of drugs since June 2020, the longest time he had been clean since he started using at age 13.
By references and reports put before the court, Dwan was a different person when off drugs, Mr Hunter submitted.
Justice Martin Burns said he remembered sentencing Dwan on the last occasion.
“You’re 25 and it’s about time you woke up to yourself,” he told Dwan.
Justice Burns sentenced Dwan to five years in jail, to commence after he had served the 15 months remaining on his last sentence, but ordered he be eligible to apply for release on parole as of December 10, 2022.
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