Inverness man found with cocaine has ‘moved on with his life’
Police who stopped a motorist in Inverness found £180 worth of cocaine in his car.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that the officers discovered five bags containing a total of 1.8 grams of the Class A narcotic in 22-year-old Lewis Macdonald's vehicle on April 13, 2023 after pulling it over in Dunain Road.
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Defence solicitor David Patterson told Sheriff Gary Aitken that his client, who admitted illegal possession of the drugs with intent to supply, was a young man who had "moved on with his life, had got a job and was in a different position".
Sentence had been deferred for a background report which Sheriff Aitken read before sentencing.
Fining Macdonald, of Coronation Road, Inverness the sum of £640, the sheriff told him: "This was an exceptionally silly thing to do. But you seem to have got yourself sorted out."
