A former star of The Bachelorette has been sentenced after pleading guilty to drug charges, but has been spared jail.
In 2020, Samuel Minkin appeared on the Australian series of the reality dating competition.
However, his time on the TV show didn’t last long, as he was eliminated in the first episode and therefore unlucky in love at the time.
The musculoskeletal therapist has now been ordered to do community service after a judge assessed his guilty plea in court.
According to NT News, Minkin pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing a prohibited drug and being involved in supplying a prohibited drug in larger than a commercial quantity, which was said to be cannabis.
Australia’s Nine News outlined that the 30-year-old was charged with supplying prohibited drugs after being pulled over by police on the road, having bought the drugs using someone else’s money, but in his own name.
The cannabis packages were said to weigh more than 144kg in total, which was far higher than the threshold for a commercial quantity.
On Monday May 15, Judge Warwick Hunt sentenced Minkin at the NSW District Court.
‘Mr Minkin has some limited social and media notoriety apparently as a result of him being engaged in a reality TV show,’ the judge said.
‘He is described in various articles as being a Bachelorette star which is a reference to the reality TV show that apparently gave him some media profile.’
The judge continued: ‘Additionally, to have one’s reputation perhaps irretrievably linked to criminal misdeeds itself does some more of the work of specific deterrence in this particular case.’
Minkin was ordered to stay off drugs and complete 400 hours of community service during a two-year intensive corrections order.
The reality star also pleaded guilty to possessing a small amount of ketamine, it was reported. This didn’t result in an additional punishment.
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