Teenager gets nine-month sentence for possession

A Teenage drug dealer, who was caught with special wrapping material for a kilo weight package of heroin worth €200,000, has been given a nine-month sentence by Judge Ann Ryan at the Dublin Children’s Court.

The youth pleaded guilty to possessing heroin for sale or supply, at his north Dublin home, on October 16, 2006. Now aged 18, he was a juvenile at the time of the offence and when the case first came to court.