Dealer hid €7k heroin haul in tennis ball and tried to throw it out window, Cork court told

Jacinta O’Brien was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to two years with half of the prison term suspended

The court heard that gardaí stopped Jacinta O’Brien from throwing the tennis ball filled with heroin out the window. File photo: iStock

A tennis ball was used to conceal a €7,000 stash of heroin by a woman who tried to throw it out the window of her home in Mallow to evade a drugs search and now she has been jailed for one year.

Jacinta O’Brien was sentenced by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to two years with half of the prison term suspended.