Angler produced air pistol after licence request

A fisheries officer who asked an angler for his licence retreated from the riverbank when the fisherman produced an air pistol and held it down by his side.

Detective Garda Pat Condon said the water amenity officer was on duty near the damn at Inniscarra, Co Cork, on May 25 when he approached Constantin Balan, who lives at an apartment at Neptune, Harty’s Quay, Rochestown, Cork.

Balan pleaded guilty to producing the air pistol to intimidate the fisheries officer.