A man has been jailed for six years by Judge Frank O'Donnell for having £19,000-worth of cocaine for supply.
John Mulligan (35), of Glasnevin, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the possession of cocaine for supply at his home on December 11th, 1996, and four weeks later in the Central Hotel.
Det Garda Kevin Spain told Mr Brendan Mulhall, prosecuting, that gardai searched Mulligan's then residence and found 99.6 grams of cocaine, with a street value of £9,000.
Mulligan admitted the cocaine was his property and that he had been cutting it for the previous three months.
Det Sgt Michael Whelan said that four weeks after this search, gardai found Mulligan in possession of cocaine worth £10,000 at the Central Hotel, Dublin. Mr Michael O'Higgins, defending, described his client as having been "grossly immature" at the time. He said he had gained no assets and had made no profits from his involvement in drugs but had been used by other "very serious criminals". Judge O'Donnell set a review date for April 2003.