Man was 'aggressive' with police when car was searched in drug dealing area

Magistrates have heard that a man behaved in an agitated and aggressive manner when police searched his car in a known drug dealing area of Skegness.
Boston Magistrates' Court.Boston Magistrates' Court.
Boston Magistrates' Court.

Bradley Robert Oates, 34, of Chapel Road, Old Leake admitted threatening and abusive behaviour and resisting the police when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.

Prosecuting, Katherine Wiggan said police went to Oates' car on a car park in Skegness at 8pm on April 19 last year because it was in a known drug dealing area.

She said Oates was in the car with his girlfriend and, as he showed signs of agitation and refused to produce a driving licence, they searched the car.

She said he became aggressive and tried to physically intervene in the search, swearing at the officers.

He was given a drugs wipe, which was positive, and became increasingly aggressive and tried to push the officers away from his car, eventually having to be restrained and handcuffed.

Mitigating, Philippa Chatterton said the search had been conducted on a car park attached to the block of flats where he had been in lockdown with his girlfriend and was not a public car park.

She said he had not understood why he had been stopped but his car was his 'pride and joy' and he thought the officers were being too rough in their search of the car and admitted he did swear at them and produce a driving licence portraying a monkey 'as a joke'.

He was fined