Drug dealer caught out by road tax fail

Dundee man jailed after being found with cocaine worth up to £37,500

A drug dealer who was caught after passing a police car on a busy main road – who then pulled him over because an automated on-board camera flagged up that his van didn’t have any tax – was yesterday jailed for three years.

Nicholas Day was found with cocaine worth up to £37,500 after police in Dundee pulled him over for road traffic offences.

Depute fiscal Vicki Bell told Dundee Sheriff Court: “He was searched and three bags of white powder were found.

“They were discovered to contain 379 grams of cocaine.

“The illicit value of those drugs is between £18,750 and £37,500 on the street.

“He admitted in interview that the drugs belonged to him.

“He said he had received the bags from an unknown male and some was to be kept by him.

“He had been involved in the social supply of the drug to friends for approximately five weeks beforehand.”

Day, 31, of Longhaugh Road, Dundee, pleaded guilty on indictment to being concerned in the supply of cocaine between April 10 and May 17 this year.

Sheriff Alastair Carmichael jailed Day for three years – and told him the sentence would have been four-and-ahalf years but for his guilty plea at the earliest opportunity. He said: “This is a serious offence. “There’s no alternative to custody.”