Cork dealer caught with heroin worth €20,000 jailed

Judge Brian O’Callaghan imposed a sentence of nine years on John O’Leary and suspended the last two years of the sentence.

John O’Leary told gardaí he had been travelling from Cork to Dublin every two or three weeks and bringing back quantities of heroin to deal in Cork city.

A 51-year-old heroin addict was caught lying in bed in a room where gardaí found over €20,000 worth of heroin, over €1,600 in cash and an electronic weighing scales and now he has been jailed for seven years.

Detective Garda Jerome Murphy testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that John O’Leary told gardaí he had been travelling from Cork to Dublin every two or three weeks and bringing back quantities of heroin to deal in Cork city.