Limerick shopkeeper jailed for using grocery shop as front for cocaine-mixing factory

Garda Cahill told the court: 'I believe he was running his own wholesale distribution business from his back kitchen'

Declan Sheehy was found alone in the kitchen mixing cocaine, surrounded by white powder, weighing scales, a blender and mixing bowls. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

A shopkeeper drug dealer told gardaí “I’m fucked now” when they walked in on him in the kitchen of his small grocery shop in Limerick, preparing over €208,000 worth of cocaine in mixing bowls.

Surrounded by white powder, weighing scales, a blender and mixing bowls, Declan Sheehy, (58), told gardaí the cocaine was his.