{"id":158510,"date":"2025-11-02T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158510\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:56:08","slug":"fanad-man-caught-with-guns-and-sword-to-be-sentenced-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158510\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanad man caught with guns and sword to be sentenced next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Fanad man caught with a large cache of weapons in the boot of his car is due to be sentenced at Letterkenny Circuit Court next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aaron McNutt (main pic) was stopped by gardai at a routine checkpoint at College Road, Letterkenny on July 28, 2023 at 3.45am.<\/p>\n<p>When they questioned him, they found a flick knife in his possession. After carrying out a further search of the vehicle, officers located an assortment of items in the boot, including a handgun, a pistol, five rifles, a sword and an axe.<\/p>\n<p>McNutt, of Glinsk, Kindrum in Fanad, was charged with ten offences, including that he had in his possession a realistic imitation firearm.<\/p>\n<p>He is also charged with being in possession a black handgun without a firearms certificate.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent signing of Letterkenny District Court, McNutt\u2019s solicitor, Mr Frank Dorrian, indicated that his client would go forward on a signed guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>McNutt appeared before Judge John Aylmer at the Circuit Court and affirmed the guilty plea in respect of all ten charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He spoke only to say \u201cyes\u201d when asked to confirm his guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sean McGee BL, barrister for McNutt, asked that an assessment of his client\u2019s suitability for community service be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>A sentencing hearing for McNutt is scheduled for November 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fanad man caught with guns and sword to be sentenced next week was last modified:  October 31st, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fanad man caught with a large cache of weapons in the boot of his car is due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[92271,9,10,92272,669,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-158510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aaron-mcnutt-court","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-donegal-circuit-court","12":"tag-donegal-news","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115479274109806486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}