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News / Cannabis seizure

TWO men, aged 32 and 20, and a 21-year old woman are in police custody after they were found to be in the possession of cannabis when disembarking from the Aberdeen ferry on Thursday morning.

Police in Shetland said on Friday that with help of sniffer dogs from the Dogs Against Drugs charity they had seized £1,400 worth of the Class B drug.

A report has been sent to the procurator fiscal in Lerwick.

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