‘CS gas for sale in newsagents in homeland’

A Russian national coming home from a night out in Cork City was caught with a canister of CS gas in his possession and claimed he did not know it was illegal, as in his country they were commonly available from newsagents.

‘CS gas for sale in newsagents in homeland’

Alex Pflug, aged 22, of flat 2, 120 Shandon St, Cork, was given a six-month suspended jail sentence at Cork District Court yesterday.

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