A MAN from Llandudno has been banned from the roads and fined after pleading guilty to drug-driving while in Rhuallt.
Joseph Barr, 51, of Cae Mawr, was accused of driving a Ford vehicle on the A55 on July 5 with no less than 17.3 micrograms per litre of blood of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC - the cannabinoid molecule in marijuana).
He pleaded guilty at Llandudno Magistrates’ Court on September 27.
Barr was disqualified from driving for three years.
The court ordered him to pay a £120 fine, £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service, and a £48 victim surcharge.
This amounted to a total of £253, to be paid in weekly instalments of £6 from October 15.
An application was made by the court for deductions from Barr’s benefits.
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