Man caught with £64k of cannabis found out by his own CCTV

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A Lanarkshire man caught with cannabis worth £64,000 was found out by his own CCTV.Ako Rash insisted to police that he'd never set foot in the Airdrie house where 4kg of the Class B drug was discovered.But the property's CCTV footage showed him and another man arriving with boxes stuffed with herbal material.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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