Dubliner stole €27k through fake package holidays to fund cocaine habit

A Dublin man who stole over €27,000 from friends and acquaintances by selling them bogus package holidays has been remanded on bail and will be sentenced in February.

37-year-old Aaron Weinrib of Cambridge Villas, Rathmines, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to eight sample charges of theft and fraud on dates between June and December 2010.