A drug trafficker was caught with cocaine worth £32,000 on the streets after police raided a serviced apartment.
Peter Walters was found standing in front of a table containing a quantity of the Class A drug and a mixing agent wearing a pair of rubber gloves.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard yesterday that the father-of-two had been placed under surveillance in Aberdeen after information was received by police.
On October 11 last year, he went into 8 Skene House, in the city’s Whitehall Place, with another man.
The room in the complex of serviced apartments that Walters, 31, entered had been booked for one night.
Police went into the room using a key and found Walters with the drugs.
Officers found a spoon, knife, digital scales, cut plastic bags, a measuring jug and glass on the table along with cocaine and the bulking agent benzocaine.
Advocate depute Alex Prentice QC said: “These items are all consistent with the preparation and division of cocaine into smaller amounts for sale.”
More than £1700 in cash was on another table along with ten knotted bags of cocaine.
Mr Prentice said: “If sold in one gram deals the cocaine seized would have a potential street value of £32,100.”
Walters, of Harcort Street, Liverpool, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine on October 11 last year, when he appeared in court yesterday. Defence solicitor advocate Iain Paterson said Walters appreciated that a prison sentence would result from the offence.
The judge, Lord Turnbull, deferred sentence on Walters for the preparation of a background report and remanded him in custody.