'Honcho' caught with €6.8k of cannabis in gear bag to be sentenced in Cork court

When the judge heard that the young man was caught with a small amount of cannabis, following the more serious drugs seizure, he said: “This lad has not really learned his lesson.” 

Garda Brian Noonan said officers at Innishannon got a strong smell of cannabis when they stopped a car at a checkpoint and found €6,800 worth of cannabis in a GAA gear bag. File Photo

A young man who was caught at garda checkpoint in Innishannon in 2019 with a sports bag containing €6,800 worth of cannabis was caught again more recently with a small amount of the drug.

The sentencing judge said that of those in the car at Innishannon, Robert Sweetnam was “the honcho”.