A youngster has been fined over £500 for pushing a feminine officer at McDiarmid Park on a match day then being caught with £200 value of cocaine stuffed down his shorts.
Nineteen-year-old Nathan Ford from Dundee shoved the officer after she challenged him a couple of bag he was seen taking out of his shorts as he made his method by way of the stadium throughout a Tayside derby final yr, Perth Sheriff Court docket heard final Wednesday.
Fiscal depute Nicole Lewis mentioned Ford had already been ordered to go away the North Stand for being too drunk in the course of the St Johnstone versus Dundee United recreation when he was seen on CCTV to be appearing shiftily with the bag.
“The accused was ejected from the North Stand for being intoxicated,” she mentioned. “He has positioned his hand in his shorts and produced a small bag containing a white powder.”
Ms Lewis mentioned the feminine officer then challenged Ford in regards to the bag and he pushed her inflicting her to lose her footing.
“Upon method he has pushed her to the physique, inflicting her to stumble backwards,” she mentioned. “He was searched and a small bag was present in his proper hand jacket pocket.”
Ms Lewis mentioned the white powder within the bag was later discovered to be cocaine however its worth was considered “nominal”.
Nevertheless she added when Ford was later transferred to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee for a check-up he was then caught with a second bag he had been concealing in his shorts, this time containing round £200 value of the Class A drug.
Ford, of Isla Avenue, Dundee, beforehand pled responsible to assaulting the feminine officer by pushing her on the physique at McDiarmid Park on August 22 final yr and being in possession of cocaine on the identical date.
Final week solicitor Linda Clark mentioned Ford had no earlier convictions and no different excellent issues to take care of in court docket.
She mentioned he had gone on to achieve employment as an apprentice roofer because the incident and instructed his offending might be handled by means of a monetary penalty.
“This has been a wake-up name for him,” she added.
Sheriff James MacDonald fined Ford £200 for assaulting the police officer and an extra £300 for possessing cocaine.
Ford was additionally ordered to pay a £20 sufferer surcharge and was advised to pay the overall quantity at a fee of £25 per week.