Police raided an Aberdeen home just in time to find a man with his hand down the toilet “frantically” trying to flush away drugs.
Dylan Dunlop was standing outside his property on Marchburn Road in Aberdeen with another male when they spotted police arriving to execute a search warrant.
They fled inside and locked the door, forcing officers to smash their way in.
When police reached the bathroom they found Dunlop, 25, on his knees with his hand in the bowl.
Dunlop found ‘kneeling down at the toilet with his hand inside the bowl’
Fiscal depute Kiril Bonavino officers attended at the address on May 25 last year regarding an unrelated search warrant.
He said: “The accused and the other person ran inside and locked the door behind them.
“Officers forced entry and saw the accused in the downstairs bathroom kneeling down at the toilet with his hand inside the bowl.
“He was seen frantically flushing several times.”
Dunlop had ‘fairly negative peer influences’
Dunlop was also found with two wraps containing 0.4g of cocaine in each, worth £40.
Dunlop, of Marchburn Road, Aberdeen, pled guilty to attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of and attempting to dispose of drugs by flushing them down the toilet.
He also admitted possession of cocaine.
Defence agent John Hardie described his client as a “young man who has unfortunately grown up with fairly negative peer influences”, but added he was now “keeping himself to himself”.
Sheriff Kirsty Hood QC handed Dunlop a four-and-a-half month supervision order.
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