A Lavington man who threatened arresting police with a knife and also smashed in the back windscreen of a rental car with a golf club as a child sat inside has escaped jail.
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Magistrate Rodney Brender told Luke Anthony Tyrell in Albury Local Court on Friday that legislation precluded him from imposing such a sentence.
That was because he was already serving a five-year and three-month jail term imposed by the District Court.
Tyrell - who committed one of the more recent offences while on parole for the District Court matters - is not due for release from Junee jail until October 8.
Mr Brender said he simply could not impose a jail term - either fully or partly consecutive or cumulative regardless of whether Tyrell's original release date of March or more recent release date of October was applied.
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In the end, he sentenced Tyrell, 25, to lengthy community correction orders.
Mr Brender said these at least served the purpose of both punishing and rehabilitating Tyrell.
Tyrell, appearing via a video link to jail, sat with his head downcast as Mr Brender delivered his sentence, delayed since Monday.
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He was given a two-year order and fined $500 on charges of destroy or damage property, over the car window incident that stemmed from an argument over money, and fail to appear on bail.
A three-year order was imposed for using an offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention and resisting police.
These charges related to an incident on February 6 when police, armed with three arrest warrants, went to Tyrell's Woomera Crescent home.
Tyrell hid behind a shower curtain as police searched his house, pulling out a large knife when they found him in the bathroom and first holding it to his throat then pointing the knife at one of the officers.
He got another two-year community corrections order on a final, unrelated charge of resisting police, where police had to use capsicum spray to subdue him.
Tyrell had a history of substance abuse, mainly methamphetamine, and turned to violence as a coping mechanism.
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