A Judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a care leaver after he lost contact with probation officers who were trying to help him find a job and settle down.
Kieran Curtis, aged 20, escaped jail when he received a suspended sentence in January for an incident in which he threatened the foster parents of a 13-year-old girl with a steak knife.
The couple had gone to his former home in Buttgarden Street, Bideford, to fetch the teenager after learning she had gone to a party.
They were waiting outside in their car when Curtis came out with a steak knife and approached them before dropping the weapon and running off.
Curtis, of Hostle Park, Ilfracombe, later moved to the Amber Project at Chawleigh, near Chulmleigh, Mid Devon, where he was a resident at the time of his sentence in January.
He admitted having a knife in a public place and was jailed for six months, suspended for a year, and ordered to receive supervision.
His case was brought back to court by the probation service after he missed a series of appointments and Judge Phillip Wassall issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court.
Miss Sarah Hornblower, prosecuting, said supervising officers had lost contact with Curtis and considered the supervision order to be unworkable.
At the time of the last hearing the court heard Curtis was doing well at the Amber Project where he was receiving help to curb alcohol abuse and to fins a job.
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