A man caught with bags of cannabis and scales in his car has insisted he only used the scales to keep track of how much he was smoking.
Glen Brown was spotted getting out of his car on Reisque Avenue, Newmachar, by police responding to intelligence about “potential drug dealing” in the area.
The 20-year-old was stopped and officers searched his vehicle and recovered bags of the class B drug along with scales and incriminating material on his phone.
Brown admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis but said that he simply had the scales in his car to help him keep tabs on how much of the drug he was smoking.
Fiscal depute Andrew McMann told Aberdeen Sheriff Court: “At 10.45pm on on August 31 2021 police were on mobile patrol in Newmachar and attended at the locus due to intelligence of potential drug dealing.
“At this time, they observed the accused leave a vehicle.”
Officers caught up with Brown and returned to the car to search it.
‘I don’t have anything to say’
Mr McMann said: “There were several sealed bags of cannabis recovered, as well as a set of scales and a cannabis grinder.
“The accused’s mobile phone was taken and subject to analysis which supported that he was concerned in the supply of cannabis.”
The fiscal told the court the cannabis recovered was worth £55, and that checks revealed Brown was not insured to drive the vehicle.
Brown, of Station Road, Fintray, pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis and to driving without insurance.
Sheriff Andrew Miller asked Brown, who appeared without a solicitor, if he would like to say anything about the offences.
Brown said: “I don’t have anything to say.”
‘Perhaps being involved in dealing cannabis to people from this car’
Sheriff Miller highlighted the discovery of the scales in the vehicle as well as bags of cannabis.
He said one interpretation of the circumstances could be “you perhaps being involved in dealing cannabis to people perhaps from this car”.
The sheriff went on: “That’s one possible interpretation of the facts explained to me by the procurator fiscal.
“Is there anything you’d like to say? Is there some different type of involvement that you’d like the court to consider here as a different interpretation of the facts?”
Brown replied: “I just used the scales to see how much I was smoking per day.”
Sheriff Miller asked: “Do you accept that you were, in some way, involved in supplying cannabis?”
Brown, who appeared with no previous convictions, confirmed he did.
Sheriff Miller deferred sentence for background reports until September.
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