Jail sentences for pair in €1.8m drugs case

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment have been given sentences of 14 and 10 years.

Jail sentences for pair in €1.8m drugs case
Wed, 28 Jul, 2010 - 13:28

Two friends who were caught transferring €1.8m of cannabis resin from tile boxes into sportsbags in a Dublin apartment have been given sentences of 14 and 10 years.

Gardaí burst into John Lynch’s Coolock apartment to find him and Anthony Tiernan loading 1,055 cannabis resin slabs into black holdall bags for distribution.

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