LAST month, two young drug couriers were jailed for importing heroin for Felloni's operation.
Emma Mooney (21) was sentenced to four years after being arrested at Dublin Airport with £80,000 of heroin in a joint operation by the Garda and the Customs National Drugs Team against a notorious north Dublin criminal gang".
Mooney, from Dublin's inner city, pleaded guilty to importing the drugs in February, 1995, and was jailed on May 15th for four years.
Garda David Levins said Mooney told gardai she needed £100 a day for her heroin habit. She claimed "a person she did not want to name" approached her on Sean McDermott Street, Dublin, and offered her £300 to fly to Liverpool the next day to collect the drugs.
Felloni's name was not used during this hearing but gardai revealed off the record that the drugs were destined for Felloni's operation. Ironically, Felloni had been due for sentence in the same court the next day but his case was adjourned until yesterday.
On the same day as Mooney was sentenced, Jason Brack (23), from Bray, Co Wicklow, was jailed for 4 1/2 years after he was arrested at Dun Laoghaire in June, 1995, as he came off a ferry with £30,000 of heroin.
The court heard he had been monitored by the joint Garda Customs operation at Dublin Airport the previous day as he caught a flight to Liverpool. Garda Ronan Lawlor told Judge Kelly that Brack had been "a small part in the bigger operation" to import heroin from Liverpool.
Last Thursday, two of Felloni's co-defendants in the August 25th, 1994, incident were dealt with by the court. Edward McLoughlin (50) received a five-year suspended sentence for allowing Felloni to use his house at Belclare Park, Ballymun, as a drugs headquarters.
Jason Doyle (23), of Cromcastle Court, Dublin, was jailed for four years for having heroin for sale or supply at McLoughlin's home. On that occasion, gardai involved in the operation against Felloni also seized high-grade heroin worth £150,000.
People arrested during the operation against Felloni's gang have either been jailed or are before the courts.