Drug dealer who admitted smuggling cannabis resin from Spain to sell here set for sentencing

A CORK drug dealer who pleaded guilty to supplying drugs yesterday admitted flying cannabis resin in from Malaga for sale in Cork city.

Gardaí caught John Heaphy, aged 50, of 59 Kerryhall Road, Cork, with the illegal drugs in a car at Innishannon Road, Fairhill, Cork.

Superintendent Michael O’Loughlin said yesterday that but for the intervention of Gardaí Donal O’Sullivan and Aileen McCarthy the drugs would have ended up on the local market.