Ex-soldier jailed for dealing cocaine from 'safe haven' Cork barracks

Shane Scanlon was active in drug-dealing, mixing cocaine and putting it into baggies for onward street distribution and was using a room to which he alone had access in Collins Barracks to store it

Shane Scanlon had signed a plea of guilty to the drug-dealing charge and to money-laundering in respect of €2,250 at his home in Cobh and another sum of €1,100 at Collins Barracks. File picture: Dan Linehan

A former soldier was jailed for four years for stashing his €27,000 worth of cocaine at Collins Barracks in Cork in “an extraordinary breach of trust for a member of the Defence Forces using a facility of a State institution to protect it.” 

Judge Dermot Sheehan said Shane Scanlon, aged 35, was active in drug-dealing, mixing cocaine and putting it into baggies for onward street distribution and was using a room to which he alone had access in Collins Barracks to store it.