Phone gives game away for trafficker
Offender started meth at 17
A 22-YEAR-OLD man caught trafficking methamphetamine and cannabis on the streets of Toowoomba has been given a two-and-a-half year jail term.
But Jett Pincham-Brown will be released next month after spending eight months in custody.
Toowoomba Supreme Court heard the then 21-year-old was found with 28.6g of cannabis during a police search of a Toowoomba home on March 15.
A police analysis of PinchamBrown’s phone showed he trafficked meth and cannabis for a five-week period from February 8, Crown prosecutor Nicole Friedewald told the court.
Pincham-Brown pleaded guilty to trafficking and possessing dangerous drugs.
Ms Friedewald said Pincham-Brown was on probation and a suspended jail sentence at the time of the offending, and though he had spent 247 days in custody since his arrest, 147 days of that had been declared by the court at a previous sentence.
Defence barrister Jack Kennedy told the court his client grew up in the Gold Coast area and in a house where drug use was prevalent.
Pincham-Brown’s mother used meth when he was a child, and he started using cannabis at 15, and meth by 17, Mr Kennedy said.
He added Pincham-Brown’s offending was to fund his own drug habit.
Justice David Boddice noted it was “an intense period of trafficking, although a short period of trafficking”.
Telling Pincham-Brown it was important for a young offender to have certainty of release, Justice Boddice said he had reduced the sentence from three years to two and a half, and declared the 100 days of pre-sentence custody as time served.
Pincham-Brown will be released on parole on December 16.