Dealer tried to flush thousands of pounds of drugs during Inverness raid
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Police officers conducting a welfare check on an Inverness woman stumbled upon a drug dealing den in Culloden.
But when they gained entry to the property in Blackwell Road on March 13, 2022, 36 year old Liverpudlian Ryan Day tried to get rid of his cocaine and heroin haul by flushing the class A drugs down the toilet.
However Inverness Sheriff Court heard that he choked the toilet bowl and the outside drain and some of his wraps of cocaine and packages of heroin were still floating.
An officer retrieved them and after a complete recovery operation by Police Scotland, 659 wraps of cocaine worth £13,180 and 150 packages of diamorphine with a street value of £6000-£7500 were recovered.
Day of Cocklade Lane, Hale Village, admitted being concerned in the supply of the narcotics.
His solicitor, Duncan Henderson said: "He is realistic enough to know that the value of drugs may prevent a community payback order being imposed.
"Although he was at a low level, he still played a key role."
Jailing Day for 27 months, Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald told him: "This involved a significant amount of class A drugs which would have been distributed in our community.
"You were a central part of the operation which was pre-planned and conducted in a business-like manner. It also involved a vulnerable person."
