A Fife man was caught with £4,200 worth of cannabis in a car he was driving while uninsured on Kirkcaldy’s Tummel Drive on September 17 last year.
Aaron Barrett, 25, pled guilty to the offences when he appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
Procurator fiscal depute Michael Robertson said police carrying out checks established a vehicle being driven by a male was only insured for a female driver.
The fiscal said police stopped it and officers could smell cannabis.
The vehicle was searched and more than 60 individually filled bags of cannabis were found.
Barrett, of Dunfermline’s Bitten Court, admitted being in possession of 420g of herbal cannabis with intent to supply it.
The fiscal depute said the total street value of the class B drug was about £4,200.
Barrett also pled guilty to using a motor vehicle without insurance.
Sheriff Alison McKay adjourned sentencing until November 2 for the production of background reports.
‘Street artists’ not guilty
A pair of Christian “street artists” accused of damaging Cupar’s war memorial have been acquitted. Ric May, 55, and Stef Ollandini, 55 – both from Dundee – had faced allegations of damaging the monument by maliciously writing on it with chalk and permanent marker. The case was still not ready – nearly three years after the alleged crime – and the pair were formally found not guilty.
Attacked Arbroath schoolgirl
A 46-year-old man who attacked a schoolgirl in an Arbroath street has been ordered to wear an electronic tag for 10 weeks.
Philip Greig admitted assaulting the pre-teen youngster in St Ninian’s Road on April 26, by striking her on her head to her injury.
He appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court for sentencing.
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown told Greig, of Cliffview Court, Arbroath, that a supervision order was appropriate.
He was also placed on a Restriction of Liberty Order curfew for 75 days.
Father of the bride
Perth dad Paul Bonar admitted menacing his future son-in-law in the street while armed with a claw hammer – just days before he is due to give away his daughter at their wedding ceremony this weekend. He appeared at the city’s sheriff court and admitted brandishing the tool while advancing towards his future son-in-law in Muirton.
Heroin discovery
A Dundee was given a 14-day prison sentence after police raided his flat and found packages of heroin.
Officers obtained a search warrant to scour Robert Tolmie‘s Sandeman Place flat on December 1 2020 and found five wraps of heroin, which they valued at £100.
Tolmie, 36, appeared from custody at Dundee Sheriff Court and admitted possessing the Class A drug.
He was fined £290 by Sheriff John Rafferty but given no time to pay and handed the jail term as an alternative.
Cut open ‘like a can of beans’
Raging James Stewart told his frightened girlfriend he would cut her father open “like a can of beans”. He made the chilling threat – one of several – in a row sparked by the woman using Facebook. He narrowly avoided a prison sentence.
Knife admission
A Lumphinnanns man has admitted carrying a knife on a residential Fife street.
Conor Hood, 29, was found with the weapon on Lochgelly’s South Street on December 1 last year.
Sentence was deferred for reports.
