George Finglas (46) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession for sale or supply of the drugs seized at a commercial premises in Lusk, Co Dublin
A father of eight has been jailed for nine years for his role in moving over €2 million worth of cannabis.
Judge Martin Nolan said George Finglas (46), of North Circular Road, Dublin, was acting as a transporter and knew what he was doing.
On February 2nd, 2021, Revenue officials inspecting freight at Dublin Port using a sniffer dog discovered two pallets of cannabis herb covered over by portable gas heaters.
Gardaí from the National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau set up a surveillance operation and carried out a controlled delivery of the consignment to an industrial estate in west Dublin.
Detective Garda Jerome Twomey told Edward Doocey BL, prosecuting, that a person known as ‘Suspect B’ arrived at these premises. Finglas then arrived separately in a rented van and Suspect B began directing Finglas and another man to unload the pallets into the rental van.
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