A Ferndown man has been banned from driving for three years after being caught drug driving during a police operation.
Roads policing officers stopped a red BMW on Church Road in Ferndown on the evening of December 5, 2025.
Police say the vehicle had pulled out of a junction at speed and appeared heavily steamed up inside.
When officers approached the car, they reported smelling cannabis.
The driver, 24-year-old Thomas Lay of Ferndown, failed a roadside drug test and was arrested.
A later blood test showed the presence of THC – the psychoactive element of cannabis – at nearly seven micrograms per litre of blood.
The legal limit is two micrograms.
Lay appeared at Poole Magistrates’ Court on March 25 where he pleaded guilty to driving with a controlled drug above the legal limit.
He was disqualified from driving for three years and ordered to pay £515 in costs.
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