A security firm boss who was leading a double life as a drug dealer was jailed for 44 months on Wednesday.
Cocaine with a street value of around £22,600 were found during a raid on Monarch Security's premises in West Mount Street, Aberdeen, where Alan Hastings, 43, worked as training manager.
Police also seized items for weighing and wrapping the drug and around £7,000 in cash.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Grampian Police mounted a watch on Hastings after a tip-off that he was moonlighting in the drug trade, as well as his £2,000-a-month day job.
Surveillance teams watched him leave his home carrying a box, and drive away in a transit van.
Later that evening police believed they witnessed a drug deal when a man got into the passenger seat of the van, then parked in Ellon and left with a large package in a white plastic bag.
A week later two men called at Hastings' home and delivered an envelope, before driving off in a BMW. Police tried to stop the car but it mounted the pavement and drove off at speed.
Police went back to Hastings’ home with a search warrant and found an envelope containing £900 and another £6,180 under a pillow in the bedroom.
Police went on to search the Monarch Security premises and in the manager's office, used only by Hastings, they found plastic bags, digital scales and a brief case which contained a cash box.
Inside the cash box were bags of cocaine.
Defence advocate David Nicholson said Hastings had been drinking heavily and taking drugs and had begun selling drugs to finance his own habit.
Jailing Hastings, Judge Lord Menzies told him: "It does appear that until your involvement in these matters you were a useful member of society.”
