A convicted drug dealer has found himself in trouble with the law again after being caught with more than £1,500 of LSD.
Brian Hetherington was found with the powerful hallucinogenic when police searched him on the city’s Hartington Road.
His co-accused Jamie Robertson, meanwhile, was found in possession of 13 boxes of Class C drug diazepam – 390 tablets in total – plus 19 loose pills.
Hetherington, 32, admitted dealing the drugs, but Robertson, 28, pled guilty to only possession.
The pair appeared in the dock together at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where fiscal depute David Rogers said the LSD was valued at £1,540 and the 409 diazepam pills had a street value of £1 per tablet.
Bought in bulk for the bargain
Hetherington, who was previously spared jail after he was caught trying to post multiple packages of drugs from his local Post Office branch, was warned he was in a “precarious position” as he admitted being concerned in the supply of the LSD on October 28 2020.
His defence agent Sian Grant said he was already subject to a community payback order for the mail order drugs offence and had just completed his curfew.
“In relation to this incident he had been at a party, he had gone to purchase some LSD and was offered an amount greater than what he required for his own personal use,” the solicitor said.
“He was given a good price and having taken alcohol and other drugs that evening he wasn’t thinking straight and went ahead with the purchase and supplied the larger amount to friends.
“He has had his issues with drugs for some time.”
Pair handed fine and curfew
Sheriff William Summers told Hetherington: “Your position is particularly precarious because you have a directly analogous conviction.”
Robertson’s defence agent Michael Horsman said his client, an electrical engineering student, had no previous drug offences and had ceased misusing substances.
The sheriff suggested he was surprised Robertson was pleading guilty to only possession given the 13 boxes he had.
He handed Robertson, of Skene View, Westhill, a £470 fine and Hetherington, of Deans Court, Kintore, a six-month nighttime curfew.
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