A man has appeared in court in connection with the discovery of \u20ac3 million of drugs at Rosslare Europort.<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old was arrested following the seizure of 150.6 kg of suspected herbal cannabis on Saturday. <\/p>\n
The drugs were found as the result of routine profiling after a truck that had disembarked a ferry from Bilbao, northern Spain, was stopped and searched by customs officers at the Co Wexford port.<\/p>\n
The cannabis had an estimated street value of \u20ac3,012,000.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested and held at Wexford Garda station under the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.<\/p>\n
Tony Abbey, of Tullow, Co Carlow, appeared before Judge Miriam Walsh at Gorey District Court on Monday on two charges. <\/p>\n
He is accused of possession of cannabis and possessing the drug for sale or supply.<\/p>\n
Det Garda Stephen Burke told the court he charged the accused after caution at the Garda station at 4pm on Saturday. <\/p>\n
He said Mr Abbey made no reply after each charge was put to him.<\/p>\n
Det Gda Burke told the court the accused was an international haulier and travelled between Ireland and Europe.<\/p>\n
Given the seriousness of the charges and that he deemed the accused a flight risk, he was objecting to an application for bail.<\/p>\n
Chris Hogan, defending, said Mr Abbey had co-operated fully with customs officers during the search of the truck. Mr Abbey had left Ireland with a load of fish and was on the way back from Spain to collect another load.<\/p>\n
When Mr Hogan put it to Det Gda Burke that Mr Abbey had co-operated, the garda said investigations were ongoing internationally and in Ireland.<\/p>\n
In evidence, Mr Abbey said he had been nearly 25 years operating in the haulage business. He said he had co-operated with gardai and would help them in any way required. If granted bail he would abide by the conditions laid down by the court, he said.<\/p>\n
Judge Walsh said she would grant bail, on an independent surety of \u20ac40,000 and a surety of \u20ac20,000 from the accused, with evidence of the monies being available being provided from bank accounts.<\/p>\n
She also ordered Mr Abbey to sign on twice a day at Tullow Garda station, observe a curfew from 11pm to 7am, provide a mobile phone number and not to apply for any travel documents.<\/p>\n
Mr Abbey was remanded in custody, with consent to bail, to appear before Wexford District Court on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has appeared in court in connection with the discovery of \u20ac3 million of drugs at Rosslare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1845,19715,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,18194,7,8,2451],"class_list":{"0":"post-23223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-carlow","11":"tag-district-court","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-rosslare","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-wexford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23223","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=23223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}