Suspended sentence for man caught buying heroin

A Meath man who was caught buying almost €2,500 worth of heroin from a drug dealer has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gerard Rowe (aged 42), with an address at Townspark, Navan, pleaded guilty to possession of the drugs for sale or supply in Dublin 7, on June 12, 2007.