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Illicit cash seized from drug dealer
The £20,000 was split between four schools – Braeview, Baldragon and St Paul’s academies and Craigie High School.
More than 130 pupils benefited from additional equipment and support with distance learning, and 90% of the 134 pupils who took part in the Leading Learners’ project either achieved expected or higher than expected grades in this year’s exams. The funding was given by the club as part of its centenary celebrations.
A SHERIFF has confiscated more than £3,000 from a drug dealer caught with £100,000 of street Valium in her Dundee home.
Police raided Leanne McCabe’s flat in the Menzieshill area of the city on two separate occasions and found 180,000 etizolam tablets and 420g of heroin.
The 35-year-old was sentenced to 20 months in prison in August after she pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of the drugs.
Prosecutors have clawed back £3,440 from McCabe in “realisable assets” with the Crown establishing she made £30,940 from dealing.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that during the first search, officers forced entry just before 10pm and found drugs littered throughout the property on Spey Drive.
Fiscal depute Marie Lyons said: “A total of 95,471 etizolam tablets were found during this search, with a maximum potential illicit value of £47,735.
“Powder at the property was found to be heroin, which weighed 35g, with a maximum value of £1,400.”
However, this would not be the last time that the police would smash their way into McCabe’s home.
Six months later, she was sitting in the kitchen when the flat was raided at around 3.15pm.
Another systematic search uncovered tens of thousands of etizolam tablets and heroin weighing hundreds of grams.
Mrs Lyons revealed, over both searches, the heroin found weighed a total of 419.57g with a maximum potential value of £16,780.
from left: Education officer Debbie Gallacher, St Paul’s pupil Leoni Doig, Teresa Little, council head of education Audrey May, Andrew Argo, former Rotary president Robert Dunn and Tim Beattie.
The etizolam was estimated as being potentially worth up to £89,989 from the tablets that were discovered.
McCabe, a prisoner of HMP Edinburgh, admitted being concerned in the supply of drugs on August 16 last year and February 17 this year.
Solicitor Jim Laverty said McCabe’s home was being used as a “safe house” to store drugs, adding that those higher up the drugs chain were the ones who profited.
The order for confiscation of £3,440 was granted by Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC.
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