Judge jails Bosnian man for ten years in cocaine case

A Bosnian man who stored a pistol and cocaine valued at over €150,000 in the ESB box of his family home because he feared "a bullet in the head" has been jailed for ten years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Zlatan Hodzic (aged 26), of Castleknock Way, Castleknock, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine valued at €151,362, cannabis resin valued at €5,800 and possession of a pistol in suspicious circumstances at his home on January 10, 2007.