A teenager who walked in on a police raid at his home had hundreds of pounds of class A drugs stuffed down his underpants.
Wesley Taylor had 44 wraps of cocaine, valued at £640, hidden in his underwear when he was searched by police in Fraserburgh.
It was Taylor’s second run-in with the police, Peterhead Sheriff Court was told.
Fiscal depute Ruaridh McAllister said that in August 2020 the 19-year-old was searched by police in Peterhead.
He was found with heroin worth £160, a mobile phone, electronic scales and “quite a significant” sum of cash – almost £2,000.
In October that same year, Taylor walked into trouble when he arrived at his property in West Road, Fraserburgh, while police were mid-search.
Mr McAllister said: “A drug search warrant was executed and whilst police were searching the property the accused entered.
“He was searched and 44 wraps of cocaine were concealed within his underwear. This was valued at £640.”
Defence agent Sam Milligan said Taylor had been “disarmingly honest” in a report compiled by social workers and suggested it hadn’t been the “usual factors” which traditionally lead people into trouble.
‘Drugs completely ruin lives’
Sheriff Christine McCrossan told Taylor he had a “naive view” and should never underestimate the way drugs ruin lives.
“It almost makes it worse that you have gone into it open-eyed and with a naive view that people buying drugs always have a choice,” she said.
“If you sat in these benches for a day you would see the devastating effect drug addiction has.
“Not only do we see people’s whole lives being ruined completely by drugs but some of them die very young.
“This will bring home to you how many victims there are in this sort of thing.”
She handed Taylor, of Robertson Road, Fraserburgh, a community payback order of supervision for 15 months and placed him on a nighttime curfew for the next nine months.
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