“YOUR dream run has come to an end,” a district court judge told a Mount Gambier man before sentencing him to effectively 10 months behind bars for multiple breaches of a suspended sentence bond for drug trafficking.
Giacobbe Tzioutziouklaris, 22, was sentenced to 21 months in prison with a 10 month non-parole period last Friday in the Mount Gambier District Court.
This follows his March 2015 suspended sentence of two years and two months imprisonment for trafficking 100 ecstasy tablets.
The drugs were found in his car in August 2014.
At the time, Tzioutziouklaris told police the tablets were for his own use and selling to friends.
His sentence was suspended on the condition he entered a 24-month good behaviour bond.
However, Tzioutziouklaris breached the terms of his bond a number of times in 2016, starting on May 1 when he punched a person in a Mount Gambier nightclub.
On June 26, he was removed from the same nightclub and charged with resisting police after “tensing his arms” when he was restrained.
He was given a six-month barring order from all licensed premises in the Mount Gambier area, which be broke by entering a local hotel.
The court heard on Friday Tzioutziouklaris displayed “alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour” during his offending and general and personal deterrence was needed.
“You are yet to display drinking in moderation,” Judge Paul Rice told Tzioutziouklaris via video-link from Adelaide.
“I hope this sentence will mark the end of your criminal career.”
Judge Rice said a call for leniency could not be adhered to due to the “repetitive nature of the offending”.
