A Kinross man kept heroin and cocaine with a potential street value of £6,320 in a plastic drinks bottle at his then partner’s Fife home.
Martin Reilly was busted with the class A drugs when police searched the address in Greenloanings, Kirkcaldy, on April 17 2021.
The 44-year-old, of Greenpark, Kinross, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to plead guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine.
Prosecutor Ronnie Hay told the court that Reilly’s then partner’s address in Greenloanings was searched around 9:15am.
Both Reilly and the woman were found in an upstairs bedroom, arrested and removed from the property.
The fiscal depute said: “A plastic drinks bottle was removed from a box within a vanity unit in the bedroom”.
It contained a plastic film package, inside of which was a knotted plastic bag containing compressed brown powder.
The brown powder weighed 111.37 grams and was found to contain heroin.
Reilly’s DNA was later found on the knot of the bag containing heroin.
The plastic drinks bottle also contained a twisted white plastic bag with another white plastic bag, inside of which was a knotted plastic wrap.
The wrap held a part-compressed white powder weighing 24.2grams which was found to contain cocaine.
Officers also seized £250 in cash from a pair of jeans in the bedroom.
Drugs officers said the heroin recovered was a recognised “4 ounce” deal with a value of £2,000 as recovered.
The fiscal depute added: “This is well in excess of personal quantity. If subdivided, this would be worth between £2,400 and £4,400.
“The cocaine recovered was also in excess of personal quantity. This has a potential value of between £1,400 and £1,920”.
The court heard that Reilly has previous convictions.
Reilly’s defence lawyer called for background reports and said his client has the opportunity of gaining employment.
Sheriff James Williamson deferred sentencing on Reilly until February 26 to obtain these reports and bail was continued.
The sheriff warned Reilly to not take that as any guarantee he will not be sent to prison.
Bogus cat breeding complaint
An abusive ex-boyfriend threatened to “destroy” his former partner with a malicious complaint to Perth and Kinross Council, accusing her of running an illegal cat breeding business.
Rafal Czarnecki’s false objections triggered a formal inspection of the woman’s home, Perth Sheriff Court heard.
It was part of a four-week campaign of abuse, following the couple’s separation after seven years.
AK47 ‘stupidity’
A 21-year-old man who brandished a fake AK47 gun at a teenage boy and his sibling in a “very foolish prank” has been fined.
Brodie Broughton‘s bizarre behaviour during the incident in Newport-on-Tay landed him in court charged with breach of the peace.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard how Broughton spooked the two males after he hid under cover of darkness before bursting out in front of them while clutching the imitation assault rifle and pretending to pull the trigger.
Broughton, of Wellgate Street in Newport, admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner and placing the pair in a state of fear or alarm on Kirk Road on January 21 2023.
Solicitor Jim Caird said: “It was a very foolish prank and he pointed this weapon at people in his neighbourhood.
“He knew them from school. He pointed at them, gave them a fright and then went on to have a chat in a very relaxed fashion.
“He realises the stupidity.”
Sheriff Harry Small fined Broughton a total of £320.
Women cleared of Rejects killing
A former drug addict and her mother have been cleared of killing a store security manager as he acted to stop the younger woman shoplifting from his workplace.
Bill Ireland, 62, collapsed and died after intervening as thief Nicola Gordon tried to leave the premises of the Rejects department store in Kirkcaldy with stolen goods.
Nicola Gordon, 37, and her mother Teresa Gordon, 59, were accused of killing Mr Ireland on January 6 in 2023 after assaulting him at the shop.
Angus knife attack
A woman must meet with social workers before she is sentenced for injuring a young man during a knife attack in Montrose.
Nicola McPhee, from Clydebank, appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court to admit the assault at a property in the town’s William Phillips Drive on July 7 2023.
There, she struck Barry Duggan Jr on his leg and hand with the weapon.
McPhee, on two bail orders from Dundee at the time, admitted she left her victim injured.
McPhee, 38, also pled guilty to acting in a threatening or abusive manner at the property the following day by shouting abusive comments and making threats.
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown ordered reports ahead of sentencing on February 27.
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