A DRUG-DRIVER was caught behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta on a Hereford road while he was over the limit for three different drugs.
Karl Watkins, 45, of Holme Lacy Road, Hereford, had 32 micrograms (mg) of cocaine, 679 mg of benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, and 3.6 mg of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in his blood when police stopped him in Kings Acre Road in Hereford on July 15.
The limits are 10, 50 and two respectively.
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Lauren Millichip, the prosecuting solicitor on the case, said at Hereford Magistrates’ Court in October that Watkins had been driving a red Ford Fiesta when he was caught.
Watkins entered guilty pleas to three counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.
Watkins was remanded on unconditional bail and a pre-sentencing report was ordered to be prepared by the probation service ahead of the next hearing when he will be sentenced, which will be on December 3.
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