Man caught with €215k of cannabis jailed for 6 years

GARDAÍ stopped a car near the Jack Lynch tunnel as it arrived in Cork with €215,000 worth of cannabis in the boot and yesterday the man responsible for the shipment was jailed for six years.

Judge Patrick J Moran imposed an eight-year sentence on Ian Hanlon, aged 40, of 22 Avondale, Passage West, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, but suspended the last two years.

Detective Sergeant Lar O’Brien said the 18kg of cannabis was discovered by drugs squad gardaí when they searched the car on the South Ring Road, Mahon, on November 8, 2010.