Member of Defence Forces to be sentenced in May for possessing €27k of cocaine at Cork barracks

The charge carries a 10-year minimum sentence unless there are exceptional circumstances

Shane Scanlon was caught with cocaine with a street value of €26,992 at Collins Barracks on Old Youghal Road in Cork. File picture: Larry Cummins

Sentencing of a member of the Irish Defence Forces who was caught almost a year ago with a stash of cocaine with a street value of €26,992 at Collins Barracks on Old Youghal Road in Cork was set on Tuesday for May 19 at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

“It is an unusual case in that he is a serving member of the armed forces,” defence senior counsel Ray Boland said after Shane Scanlon affirmed his signed guilty pleas to all charges against him.