Man facing jail over £50,000 Kingsway heroin find

A drugs courier was caught with £50,000 worth of heroin, Dundee Sheriff Court heard.

Brian Scales was caught after a tip-off led police to pull him over on the Kingsway.

A sniffer dog located a half-kilo package of the class A drug in the cab.

Fiscal depute Nicola Gillespie said: “On December 19 last year police received intelligence of a van registered to the accused involved in supply.

“Police saw the van drive onto Kingsway and stopped it. They found two phones, insurance documents, paper with writing on it and a brown package.

“It was found to be heroin.”

Scales, 56, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of being concerned in the supply of drugs.

Sheriff Elizabeth Munro deferred sentence for social work background reports.