A Whitehorse man has been found guilty of the possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

Ronald Asuchak was also found to have committed a number of driving offences after he allegedly attempted to flee from the RCMP while dumping the drugs out his car window.

Asuchak, 54, was arrested last April 21 after the police attempted to pull over the car he was driving in downtown Whitehorse.

According to court documents, officers were acting on an informant's tip and surveillance when two police cars approached Asuchak's vehicle from behind, lights flashing.

Asuchak applied the brakes and slowed down as if he were stopping. One of the two police cars attempted to pass the accused's car and move in front of it, the court heard.

At this point, the car accelerated and drove off.

At the same time, a police van, approaching the scene from the opposite direction, turned and blocked the lane, attempting to prevent the accused from escaping.

Asuchak then drove off the road and between the van and another vehicle parked on the side of the road.

In his ruling, made public this week, territorial court Judge John Faulkner said Asuchak had one or possibly two bags containing cocaine with him in the car.

"He attempted to dispose of the cocaine by holding the bags out the window and allowing the powder to blow away in the wind as he drove,” the judge said.

Although most of the powder was scattered by the wind, police later retrieved a baggie and a small quantity of cocaine from the road along the route.

When Asuchak and his passenger were eventually arrested, the front of his clothes were covered in cocaine powder and there was cocaine on the driver's side floor and seat.

In addition to a number of syringes, police also found $1,058 in paper money, $562 in rolled coins, a set of digital scales and a cell phone when they searched the car, the judge said.

In the hours following Asuchak's arrest, the phone rang constantly, and received a number of text messages suggesting drug trafficking, the police said.

During his trial earlier this month, Asuchak took the stand and provided his own explanation of events.

He said he is a serious drug addict and the cocaine, which he said he had just purchased for personal use, was a quarter of an ounce.

The scale, he said, was given to him by another man so he could weigh his purchase, and the cash was the proceeds from a GST rebate cheque.

He denied the phone calls and text messages had anything to do with him, despite the fact that some of the communications were to a man named Ron.

He testified he did not like texting and seldom looked at texts or replied to them.

Asked why he attempted to evade the police and dispose of the drugs, Asuchak testified he did not realize it was the police, thinking instead it was a drug enforcer or his passenger's jealous husband.

The judge was not swayed, calling much of Asuchak's testimony "patent nonsense”.

Faulkner said he didn't believe Asuchak was unaware the police were behind him, pointing out that he initially applied the brakes and slowed down.

"His explanation for then attempting to dispose of the cocaine makes no sense whatever,” the judge said.

"A jealous husband would have no interest in the cocaine. If it was drug enforcers, Mr. Asuchak testified that he had just bought and paid for the cocaine he has on him. Enforcers come after you if you do not pay.”

The judge was equally as skeptical of Asuchak's claim that the money came from a GST rebate.

Faulkner pointed out the cash was stuffed in a number of places around the car and totalled more than it should have if Asuchak had truly just purchased the drugs.

"Then we come to the phone calls and texts,” the judge said. "Mr. Asuchak denies knowledge of the calls, despite the fact that he was in possession of the phone and despite the fact that one of the callers thinks he is communicating with Ron.”

The judge added that while Asuchak was in possession of the phone, texts were coming in and being responded to.

"The whole story he tells is so absurd that it is unnecessary to go further and catalogue the inconsistencies and contradictions that emerge in his cross-examination before I am able to say that his evidence is utterly incapable of belief.”

Along with the drug charge, Asuchak was also found guilty of dangerous driving and failing to stop for a peace officer.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 23.