East Devonport man resentenced in the Supreme Court in Burnie for taking drugs while in home detention

A Supreme Court judge has blasted a man for his drug use while serving a home detention order for slashing a woman’s face with a knife during a street fight last year.

Burnie Supreme and Magisterial Courts

An East Devonport man who smoked cannabis and took meth while he was under a home detention order has been ordered by a Supreme Court judge to serve the rest of his sentence in prison.

In August 2023, Jason Timothy Cintar, who was 38 years old at the time, was sentenced to a 12-month home detention order on one count of wounding for slashing a woman’s face with a knife during a street fight.

During that sentencing in the Burnie Supreme Court, Justice Tamara Jago said that Cintar had struggled with long-term drug addiction at the time of the offence.

“If, at the end of the day, you do not embrace the opportunity I have given you and you return to the use of illicit drugs or otherwise breach the terms of the home detention order, an application can be made that you’ll be re-sentenced,” Justice Jago told Cintar at the time.

“It would be almost inevitable, in my view, that any re-sentencing order will involve actual imprisonment.”

During re-sentencing on Tuesday, she repeated those words to Cintar.

The court heard that Cintar failed to attend drug screening appointments and provide his own samples on multiple occasions between September 19 and December 7, 2023.

Justice Jago said that on occasions when his urine samples were provided, cannabis, amphetamine and methylamphetamine were detected.

“Further, on your admission form for a drug screening on 24 August 2023, so a mere 10 days after I had sentenced you, you admitted to using cannabis and methylamphetamine and also admitted that you misled the court during the sentencing hearing by failing to disclose that you were still using methylamphetamine at that time.”

Justice Jago said Cintar had acknowledged his cannabis use during that same hearing and indicated that he was determined to curb his addiction.

“However, at this stage, you are not capable of that abstinence, and you have continued to use illicit substances regularly throughout the life of the home detention order.”

The court heard that during the home detention order, there were travel breaches by way of deviation, but Justice Jago said they occurred because Cintar was “disorganised”.

She resentenced him to five months in prison, backdated to May 1.