Barrow 20-year-old fined £415 for cannabis possession after fleeing police
A 20-year-old from Storey Square in Barrow pleaded guilty at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court to possession of Class B cannabis after police found cannabis vapes and buds on him and more cannabis, scales and grinders at his home. Magistrates fined him £415 and ordered £166 in victim surcharge and £85 in costs.
🇬🇧 Storey Square, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria · United Kingdom
A 20-year-old man appeared before South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court over
possession of cannabis and drug-related paraphernalia after he tried to run from
police officers on foot patrol.[1]Officers pursued him on the evening of
September 11 after finding two males ‘acting suspiciously’.[1]
A search of the defendant turned up cannabis vapes and cannabis buds.[1]A
later search of his home at Storey Square in Barrow found scales, three
grinders, zip lock bags and further cannabis buds.[1]
He pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to possession of Class B cannabis.[1]Representing himself, he told the magistrates there was no point producing
weighing scales and grinders because he was not a dealer and was only there for
simple possession.[1]The prosecutor said possessing such paraphernalia was
consistent with people who use cannabis.[1]
The magistrates fined him £415 at band C and ordered him to pay a £166 victim
surcharge and £85 in court costs.[1]
Case data
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The article gives no weight for the cannabis vapes or buds found on the man or at his home, so no weight is recorded.
The article gives only 11 September for the police search and does not date the court hearing, so 11 September 2026 is used as the incident date and the sentencing date is not recorded.
Only one account of the hearing was found; no police statement or second outlet report was located.
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
