Teen is first person charged with smuggling drugs into prison

A Dublin teenager has made legal history by becoming the first person in the State to be charged with a newly-designated offence for smuggling drugs into a prison.

The teenage boy (aged 17) has already been charged at the Dublin Children’s Court under section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act with possession of a 58 diazepam tablets with intention of sale or supply to another, at Royal Canal Bank, in Phibsborough, Dublin, on August 23 last.