A sheriff has confiscated more than £3,000 from a drug dealer caught with over £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 McCabe made £30,940 from dealing.
Dundee flat raided twice
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, McCabe 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.
‘Safe house’ claims
Mrs Lyons revealed over both searches, the heroin found weighed a total of 419.57g with a maximum potential value of £16,780.
The etizolam was estimated as being potentially worth up to £89,989 from the 227, 918 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.
