Garda Snout in Trough goes down
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Saturday February 05, 2005 15:34
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A garda has been arrested and is being questioned in Drogheda following the seizure of over €260,000 worth of drugs in the town.
He is stationed in north Dublin, and has been suspended from duty.
It is understood he has been a member of the force for seven years.
More than 13,000 ecstasy tablets, along with cocaine and amphetamines were seized after drugs squad detectives in Drogheda searched an apartment yesterday afternoon.
260,000€ / 13,000 = 20€
ergo, it wasn't all ecstasy coz ecstasy doesn't cost 20€ a pill. And neither do people with 13,000 pills tend to sell them one by one, they sell them in bulk at discount.
The 28-year-old garda, who was in the apartment at the time of the raid, was arrested later in north Co Dublin and is being detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act.
Section 2 deals with amongst other things tying Irish criminal law to the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances done at Vienna on the 20th day of December, 1988.
And making it illegal to stuff drugs in your pocket if you're at raid and working for the boys in blue.
And making it illegal to sell psychotropic substances.
Now Trafficking, whatever the value of the pill, is very very naughty. Its a step up from dealing, and quite a few steps up from sorting out your mates on a friday evening.
Though in fairness trafficking is not the same as owning a factory and pill printing press and holding the recipe for exactly what went into the little pills in the first place.
MDMA is a wonderful substance, make no mistake, it is a member of the SSRI group of chemicals which include anti-depressents, and in clinical trials has been credited with sorting out loads of people, especially believe it or not, really old people.
Which is why there are some states in Europe whose fine scientists have worked for a long time investigating purity of MDMA and what it does to peoples' brains, minds and what sort of kids they have afterwards.
And there are a lot of different types of pills out there.
"Garda snout in trough of Drogheda"
has not done or been party to that research,
and neither the young or old of Ireland
are offered MDMA quality testing kits, or live presently in the sort of legal climate.
= Over to you Minister Mc Dowell.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA29Y1996.html
http://www.ecstasy.org/
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8uh oh. possible danger. better confirm the story with someone...
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Gardaí in north county Dublin have seized cannabis with a street value of €250,000. The haul was discovered in a house at Turnapin Cottages in Cloghran close to the airport late last night. A saw-off shotgun and a crossbow were also recovered. Gardaí say no one has been arrested yet in connection with the find.
http://unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=9&si=67924
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Now Cannabis is ok "in moderation", sawn off shotguns aren't nor are crossbows, and use your soft maths again, 250,000€ of hash at street value means a lot of kilos in bulk. Thing is *getting the priorities* right is important. So may of you will think coz you like a smoke thats its bad news to see a quarter of a million euros worth of hashish go to the incinerator.
Some of you will wonder... where is that incinerator, could I just stand down wind for a while?
And some of you will think, wow, someone gets a quarter million euros of bulk on a regular basis and is not paying a screed of tax, and probably doesn't even roll spliffs just snorts it all instead, and threatens other people with crossbows and shit, and hey, maybe its time I grew my own.
Cannabis Sativa is a natural plant of the garden, its found everywhere, it has grown succesfully in the last few years in the Queen of engurland's back garden, Westminster Square, and just in front of the White House in Washington.
http://www.cannabisireland.com/
= Get your priorities right. Minister, Gardaí, Kids, Gardeners, buyers. Get the bad guys & give the kids a break.
he has a difficult job doesn't he?
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stop victimising us for someone else's bulk!
mm, interesting to see how this pans out, 4 lads from dundalk just got 10-17 years for supplying cannabis - Class B/C. Ecstacy and Whizz is a class A drug. Whats the betting he gets off with a fine.
Its and old joke round here - but he must have been an "avant guard " ;-)
Now do we think its right that E n whizz are Class A drugs? Coz elsewhere in the EU they aren't, and we really ought be harmonising that sort of thing.
After all they're not Smack nor Crack are they?
You dont find problem E heads mugging people and being a nusiance to feed their habit in a parasitic way, rather on the contrary they support a billion euro entertainment and fashion industry, and just make a nusiance of themselves with the LOUD music.
yes i agree, but i wouldnt' argue for their re-classification just yet, now that there is a smelly garda in the frame. Maybe when HE gets sentenced :-)
But today there is news of a seizure of 200kg of cannabis by his boys in blue, "not a blackguard amongst them" which they estimate at being worth
€1.5 million in north Dublin.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0323/drugs.html
Do the soft math.
Do you agree with the estimate?
No you don't.
so who's telling porkies?
Minister Mc Dowell, has recently promised to improve housing to the Gardaí, let us wonder was the garda in the article above "living in subsidised accomodation?"
but has not offered us any news on the alledged shooting incident at his second home in roscommon which Prof J Fitzgerald, and an increasingly vocal lobby think he ought pay tax on.
http://www.esri.ie/pdf/QEC0305SA_FitzGerald_The%20Irish%20Housing%20Stock.pdf
"how much publicity do you think the minister can handle?"
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