Drug offender takes jail term over offer of probation order
A drug offender who declined the offer of probation now has a three-month jail term hanging over his head for the next 15 months.
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AN OFFENDER who declined the offer of probation now has a three-month jail term hanging over his head for the next 15 months.
Joshua Mark Quinn was subject to a 15-month probation order imposed by Toowoomba Magistrates Court in December last year when police arrived at his Toowoomba house on May 8, the same court heard.
A police search of the house turned up 103g of cannabis and a set of digital scales in the lounge room which the 24-year-old admitted ownership, police prosecutor Shelby Larcombe told the court.
He also told police he had shared the drug with a friend and was subsequently charged with supplying a dangerous drug.
Quinn pleaded guilty to possessing and supplying a dangerous drug and to possessing a drug related utensil.
His solicitor Alysha Jacobsen, of Bouchier Khan Lawyers, told the court her client instructed he had used cannabis for eight years but had stopped by September last year.
However, he started using the drug again after a two vehicle crash near Greenmount around the same time which saw him in hospital for a week with serious hand injuries, she said.
But for her client’s admission to police that he had shared a small amount of cannabis with a friend, he may not have been charged with supplying he drug, Ms Jacobsen submitted.
Magistrate Graham Lee initially offered Quinn 15 months probation but he declined the offer so Mr Lee sentenced him to three months in jail but suspended the whole term for 15 months.
For breaching his previous probation order by reoffending, Quinn was placed on six months probation.