Four years for man caught in Cork at Covid checkpoint with €70k of heroin

The backpack containing €70,000 worth of heroin also had documentation in it with the defendant’s name on it

Detective Garda Aidan Long testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court 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 got out of the car. File photo: Denis Minihane

A Dubliner who walked away from a Garda checkpoint in Cork with a large stash of heroin claimed he left the car because of a row with the driver but the driver said the passenger left to get help because the car overheated.

When interviewed at the time he also denied that the backpack containing €70,000 worth of heroin, which he discarded, had anything to do with him.