John Gallacher: Last News

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Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.A man was caught with £3,000 worth of coke in his family home after becoming involved in dealing to feed his own habit.John Gallacher appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court last week after pleading guilty to the offence which his lawyer said had caused “embarrassment and distress” to his family.Police executed a search warrant for the property in the town’s Caledonia Terrace on January 29 last year and found the 25-year-old inside.The fiscal depute said: “Over the course of the search, officers recovered 74 grammes of white powder which was later tested and found to be positive for cocaine with an