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A CAR passenger was caught with cannabis after being stopped by police officers near Welshpool, a court heard. Lewis Anderson Conaway, 21, was travelling with a group of young men when police stopped the car in Pool Quay on February 22. He pleaded guilty to possession of the Class B drug at Welshpool Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, April 6. Jim Neary, prosecuting, told the court: “When the police chatted to them, one of the officers said he could smell cannabis coming from the group. “They were asked if they had anything. Mr Conaway said that he did, and produced a small amount of cannabis.”
A Welshpool man punched and kicked a restaurant worker in the ribs during a brawl over a female friend, a court heard. Niles Taylor, 19, pleaded guilty to both charges of assault by beating and possession of cannabis when he appeared at Welshpool Magistrates Court on Tuesday, April 6. The court heard that Taylor punched, kicked and placed Daniel Brown in a headlock outside a Chinese restaurant in the town on February 19 this year. At around 7pm, police received a report from the Chinese restaurant s owner and Mr Brown s landlord that one of his staff members had been assaulted. Jim Neary, prosecuting, said: Police officers were met by Mr Brown who had quite clearly been assaulted and was quite visibly upset.
Helen Tench, prosecuting, told the court that the witness asked his partner to ring the police to say that the vehicle was all over the road believing him to be drunk. The court heard that when a police officer approached the Mercedes in a layby in Llangurig, he noticed a strong smell of alcohol. Matthews told the officer that he was not driving and that he had stopped to change a tyre. The defendant insisted that he was not driving and that the female occupant was driving and that he was disqualified, Ms Tench added. The female had a tyre on her lap and there were two small children in the car and another female who appeared to be asleep.