Smuggling driver gets ten years
29th July 1999, Page 9
29th July 1999
Page 9
Page 9, 29th July 1999
— Smuggling driver gets ten years
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• A Dublin judge sent a message to all truck drivers last week, when he sentenced a driver to 10 years in jaiL
Judge Frank O'Donnell said a warning must go out to drivers to say that Ireland is not a soft target for crossing borders with drugs.
He jailed Declan Donnehy, 27, from Newry, for importing £1.5m worth of ecstasy tablets into Dublin port in April1998. Police in England saw Donnehy picking up the 100,000 tablets in two hold-ails.
Irish police followed him from Dublin to Santry where he was arrested on his way to Dundalk to deliver the drugs to a dealer.
Donnehy told the police that he didn't know there were drugs in the hold-alls; he told the court he thought he was smuggling cigarettes.