Highland drug-driver caught after anonymous tip-off
Published: 07:00, 28 March 2024
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Police received an anonymous tip-off that a motorist was suspected of driving under the influence and put out an alert to trace the Ford Fiesta.
Officers located the car on the Cromarty Bridge and stopped 29-year-old Josh Kidd a little further up the road at Ardullie, near Evanton, just after 6pm on October 24, 2022.
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Inverness Sheriff Court heard that a breath test proved negative for alcohol but positive for cannabis and subsequent blood analysis showed Kidd was almost twice the legal limit for driving.
His reading was 3.9mcgs of the drug when the legal driving limit is 2mcgs.
Kidd, of Greenside Street, Rosemarkie admitted drug-driving and was fined £380. He was also disqualified from driving for three years.
