CANNABIS plants were grown in a man’s home after he allowed the property to be used to cultivate the drug.
Musselburgh man Justin Main was originally charged with growing cannabis plants at his North High Street home before selling it on for profit to others.
But a reduced plea of allowing someone else to use the property to produce the cannabis was accepted by the Crown.
A not guilty plea to a charge of intentionally altering the register of his electricity meter by bypassing the meter by using a wire was also accepted.
The 32-year-old, now of the town’s Galt Road, previously admitted the offence carried out last January and was sentenced at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last Tuesday.
Sheriff Thomas Welsh QC ordered Main to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and placed him on a restriction of liberty order, meaning he will have to remain within his address between 8pm and 6am for the next five months.
Main admitted a charge of allowing his home to be used for producing quantities of cannabis on January 16 last year.
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