Man had €44k in his tracksuit bottoms

A Limerick man has offered no objection to forfeiting €44,000 which a judge ruled was the proceeds of crime or was intended for use in criminal conduct.

Warren Hehir, aged 25, of The Path, Garryowen, was the passenger in a car on Long Mile Rd in Dublin on August 28, 2015. Gardaí pulled the vehicle over after the driver took a wrong turn into oncoming traffic.

Officers believed the men were acting suspiciously and searched the car. A sum of cash, €43,970, was found, bundled into €1,000 notes, in Hehir’s tracksuit bottoms, while a further €635 was found in his pocket, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told.