A POLICE officer with a keen sense of smell caught a whiff of cannabis coming from a delivery driver's car after he flouted a road closure.
Daniel Panduru appeared in court in Hereford earlier this month and entered a guilty plea to one count of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.
Panduru was busted by police on Valentine's Day (February 14) when he breached a police cordon on the A49 in Harewood End. The road was closed in the evening following a crash.
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When an officer came to speak to him, he could smell cannabis. Panduru was found to have 11 microgrammes (mg) of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, a cannabinoid found in cannabis, in his blood, exceeding the legal limit of two mg.
The 32-year-old, of Durham Road, Worcester, had been working as a delivery driver, and the court heard that he will be out of work after being handed a driving ban by magistrates.
The bench banned him from driving for 12 months. He was ordered to pay a total of £253, including £85 in court costs.
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