Man ‘almost nonchalantly’ had €17k of heroin on bus

Heroin worth €17,000 was carried “almost nonchalantly” by a man travelling by bus from Dublin to Cork and yesterday he was jailed for his drugs crime.

Bobby Jordan, aged 35, formerly of Lakelands Crescent, Mahon, Cork, had four-and-a-half ounces of heroin with a street value totalling over €17,000 concealed down his trousers when searched at Mayfield Garda Station following his arrest on Patrick’s Quay.

Gardaí were waiting for him when he stepped off the coach from Dublin to Cork and was about to get into a waiting car.