State seizures €40k 'crime proceeds'

A Co Down convicted drug dealer has had over €40,000 of his money seized by the State after Judge Katherine Delahunt said she was satisfied it represented the proceeds of crime.

Richard Ferguson (aged 46) of Old Gransha Road, Bangor, was stopped by custom officers in Dublin Airport on November 25, 2008. He later admitted that he had come for Amsterdam, where he had taken drugs and that there was a small amount of heroin in his vehicle in the car park.