Bail refused for man over seizure of €70k worth of heroin 

Drugs found during Covid-19 checkpoint on Cork-Limerick road

Detective Garda Aidan Long testified during the bail application by Lakes that the accused was travelling in a car that stopped behind another car at a Covid-19 checkpoint on the main Cork-Limerick Road on March 16 and that a number of people allegedly got out of the car. File picture Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin

A Dubliner facing charges in relation to the seizure of €70,000 worth of heroin at a Garda checkpoint in Cork was remanded in custody for a fortnight for a Garda file to be prepared in the case.

Thomas Lakes was refused bail recently at Cork District Court and he has just been refused in his appeal to the High Court for bail.