Jail for man who broke leg jumping from window as police raided cannabis farm
A man has been handed a custodial sentence after jumping from a first-floor window of a cannabis factory and breaking his leg when police raided the property.
A man has been handed a custodial sentence after jumping from a first-floor window of a cannabis factory and breaking his leg when police raided the property.
Children as young as 12 were customers of a drug den, a council has said.
A man leaped from the first-floor window of a north-east cannabis factory as police raided the property.
More than £145,000 of cannabis was discovered by police in Aberdeen following reports of a disturbance.
A cannabis addict obsessed with stabbings and serial killings has been jailed for life after he targeted two lone elderly women in alleyway knife attacks.
The Government is looking for an “urgent legal fix” to resume the importation of medical cannabis from the Netherlands post-Brexit, the Health Secretary has said.
The mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare form of epilepsy has warned her son’s life is at risk because his medical cannabis can no longer be imported from the Netherlands due to Brexit.
A man has been arrested after cannabis was uncovered during a raid in Orkney. Police searched the cottage on Eday earlier today. A spokeswoman said: “Officers are currently carrying out a search warrant at an address in Eday. “A cannabis cultivation has been recovered and one man arrested. “Further information will be released when possible.”
Two men have been charged after police seized around £220,000 worth of drugs at a rural property.
An Aberdeen mother helped police find her son after he used her living room to hide from officers.
Drug seizures in England and Wales increased by 20% in a year, figures show.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has approved a bill to decriminalise and tax marijuana in the US at the federal level.
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs has voted to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry.
A mother who was forced to sell her home in order to pay for “life-changing” medicinal cannabis to treat her severely epileptic daughter has urged Boris Johnson to make the treatment more accessible.
Two people have appeared in court after police recovered more than £25,000 of illegal drugs in Aberdeen.
Police in Aberdeen have recovered cannabis worth £25,000 alongside cocaine and cash in a raid in the Tillydrone area.
A north-east man who ran a home-grown cannabis operation using equipment purchased from Amazon has been handed supervision.
Kevin Thorley-Smith, 23, was standing on Manor Drive in Aberdeen with bags containing a total of 79g of cannabis, worth £790, when officers on patrol in a marked police car drove by.
An Aberdeen drug trafficker who claimed he was saving for a wedding has been jailed after he directed an accomplice to sell cocaine and other narcotics.
A paranoid Aberdeen drug dealer, who took photos of himself posing with bags of cannabis, caused nearly £10,000 of damage smashing up his flat in search of surveillance cameras he'd convinced himself were there.
An Aberdeen drug dealer was caught with hundreds of pounds worth of cannabis after eagle-eyed cops spotted him "flinch" nervously as they drove by.
An Aberdeen man has been handed a supervision order after he was caught with a bag of cannabis potentially worth more than £3,500 – when he called the police for help.
Police have loaded a van full of plants following a raid on a Moray hotel at the weekend.
Two men have appeared in court today after police seized more than £750,000 cannabis in Buckie.
A north-east teenager was caught with a bag of cannabis - and also tray bakes infused with the drug - when his mum called police and handed the items over to them.
A woman has been fined and banned from the road after failing to provide a blood sample to police who suspected her of driving under the influence of drugs.
Police officers discovered three cannabis plants at Scott Urquhart’s home on Rosebank Place in Aberdeen when they attended and searched the premises in respect of an unrelated matter.
More than 220 people have been reported in connection with drug offences in just one month.
The high-profile raids carried out in Aberdeen are a sharp reminder that the scourge of the criminal drug trade is still a blight on the north-east.
An Aberdeen man was caught with a bag of cannabis potentially worth more than £3,500 - after he called the police for help.