Fine and ban for drug-driver stopped at Melvich
Published: 14:20, 16 June 2022
| Updated: 14:21, 16 June 2022
A motorist caught at more than three times the drug-driving limit was fined £400 and banned for 18 months at Wick Sheriff court on Wednesday.
Joshua Barker, of Roughcote Lane, Caverswall, Staffordshire, pleaded guilty to the offence.
Police stopped the 25-year-old on the A836 at Melvich on June 5, last year.
He gave a positive drugs swipe and analysis revealed a reading of 6.9mcg for the cannabis-based Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. The legal limit is 2mcg.
