A Tayside drug dealer has been made subject of a £15,600 confiscation order after being convicted of supplying cocaine.
On December 31 2013, police attended the then home address of Calum Menzies on Main Street, Almondbank.
They recovered more than 600g of cocaine from within the house and the accused’s van, with an estimated street value of around £32,000.
In May 2014, Menzies, 53, Almondbank, was sentenced to one year and nine months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
Tuesday’s order at Perth Sheriff Court is in addition to an order for £106,000 which was made on July 22 2010, following a conviction for cultivating cannabis.
As Menzies only paid a partial amount of the 2010 order, the Crown has applied for the appointment of an administrator to sell off his assets.
Lindsey Miller, procurator fiscal for Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism, said: “After a previous conviction for involvement in drugs, Calum Menzies thought he would try his luck again, and again he has been apprehended, convicted, imprisoned and his criminal earnings confiscated.
“Hopefully he will now realise that Scotland is no place to be dealing drugs, and that those who attempt to profit from this trade will be identified, brought to justice, and their criminal earnings seized.”