Man claims €70k of heroin found in gear bag on Cork-Limerick road is not his

Detective Garda Long testified during the bail application that when the bag was found there was documentation in it with the defendant’s name on it

Gardaí with the assistance of a sniffer dog located the gear bag near a garda checkpoint. File photo

A 44-year-old Dubliner allegedly caught near a garda checkpoint carrying a gear bag containing €70,000 worth of heroin completely denied having anything to do with the drugs.

Gardaí with the assistance of a sniffer dog located the gear bag at the side of the road and found that it contained half a kilogram of heroin.