Cookstown teenager convicted over cannabis find
A Cookstown teenager has been given a three month detention order in a young offenders’ centre, suspended for two years, after being found guilty of possessing marijuana with the intent to supply.
A Cookstown teenager has been given a three month detention order in a young offenders’ centre, suspended for two years, after being found guilty of possessing marijuana with the intent to supply.
Ryan McCracken, 18, from Castle Villas, appeared at Dungannon Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
The court heard how police searched his home address for controlled drugs on June 28, and found £680 worth of herbal cannabis in a garden shed, along with plastic bags, mini-scales, and mobile phone evidence thathe was supplying drugs.
McCracken, who was 16 at the time, assisted police in the search, and told them the drugs were for his own personal use.
However, his solicitor told the court that McCracken now accepted that it was his intention to supply the drugs.
He pointed out that since the offence McCracken had been seriously injured in a car accident which had killed his girlfriend.
In spite of his immaturity and the traumatic events he had endured, he had made good progress in the meantime.
However, Judge John Meehan warned that supplying drugs was a serious offence and that he had concerns about McCracken’s lifestyle, and his ability to support himself.
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