Lifelong criminal gets 10 years for drug dealing

A lifelong criminal in the drugs trade John Heaphy was yesterday jailed for 10 years for bringing €37,000 worth of heroin into Cork last year.
Lifelong criminal gets 10 years for drug dealing

“It is tragic that a man his age [64] and physical, and attending to psychiatric problems, has to be dealt with in this way but he has given his life to drug sale and supply and this is the harvest he will do,” Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

Detective Garda John Sheedy said he had obtained confidential information of drugs being transported from Limerick to Cork and a surveillance operation was put in place at Halfway, Crossroads, Rathduff, Co Cork, on February 15, 2014.

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