Possession of class A and B drugs leads to fine

A THIRTY year old man from Dunfermline has been fined £400 for being in possession of class A and B drugs when he was stopped by police on Lerwick’s Holmsgarth Road.

Pleading guilty by letter to three charges, Tyler Castledine, had cannabis, cannabis resin and Tapentodol, a pain killer containing opioids that requires a prescription, in his vehicle when police executed an apprehension warrant on 13 July last year.

Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said the total value of the controlled drugs was below £300.

Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Thursday that Castledine, of St Margaret’s Well, Dunfermline, was in Shetland at the time working for an agency as a chef.

Sheriff Ian Cruickshank allowed Castledine to pay the fine in instalments of £50 per month.

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