Cobh man caught with cocaine during Garda house search

Gardaí forced open a padlocked room and discovered the drugs.

A Cobh man was dealing cocaine in an effort to clear a €20,000 drugs debt but his stash of drugs was uncovered by gardaí during a search being carried out for an unrelated matter.

Detective Garda Diarmuid O’Neill testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that gardaí went to the property at a farmhouse in the Cobh area of County Cork on December 17, 2022.