A drug dealer caught red-handed with street Valium worth over £100,000 has been ordered to hand back £3,440 profits from the illicit trade.
Leanne McCabe was jailed for 20 months after being discovered with nearly 200,000 tablets during two raids on her council flat in Menzieshill, Dundee.
On Tuesday at Dundee Sheriff Court, prosecutor Stewart Duncan said the Crown established McCabe had made nearly £31,000 from drug dealing.
However, the fiscal depute told the court that the Crown had agreed to claw back £3,440 from McCabe as that was the total of her "realisable assets."
Sheriff Lorna Drummond formally granted the order for £3,440 to be handed over by McCabe, 35, who previously admitted four charges of drug dealing.
Fiscal depute Marie Irvine told the court her home was first raided on 16 August last year and almost 100,000 etizolam tablets were found in the property.
"Over a few weeks police received intelligence that drug dealing was taking place at the property," she said.
"A search warrant was granted and entry was forced.
"The accused was traced within the bedroom and a systematic search was carried out. There were 95,471 tablets with a maximum illicit value of £47,735."
During that raid, and the second raid carried out on 17 February this year, heroin was also found and assessed to be worth a maximum of £16,780 in total.
A further 84,404 etizolam tablets were found during the second raid and Ms Irvine said: "It was evident there was a large quantity of suspected controlled drugs on display."
Solicitor Jim Laverty, defending, said: "I would accept that custody is justified and proportionate. Whilst she did not benefit financially, she understands that by providing her house as a safe house she was still a significant cog in the machinery of drug supply."
McCabe, from Dundee but a prisoner in Edinburgh, admitted supplying both kinds of drug from Spey Drive, Dundee, on 16 August and 17 February.
She was jailed for 20 months earlier this year and had a further ten months imposed as a supervised release period.
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