Man found with small amount of cocaine in wallet in Cookstown town centre
A 30-year-old Cookstown man found with a small amount of cocaine in his wallet, was fined £250 with a £15 offender’s levy at Dungannon Magistrates Court.
Sean Lagan whose address was listed as Greenvale Drive in the town, admitted a charge of unlawfully possessing the class A drug on December 31 last year.
Counsel prosecuting said the offence came to light when police stopped a car containing the defendant and other occupants at James Street in Cookstown at 10.30pm.
He said police located one gram of cocaine in the defendant’s wallet and he later made a fully admission.
A defence solicitor described it as a “one time only” offence for Lagan, who was unlikely to trouble the court in future.
He explained the father-of-two had a marital breakdown around the time of the incident.
District Judge Francis Rafferty made a destruction order for the drug and said he would impose a financial penalty.