A court heard yesterday that gardaí foiled a cocaine dealer’s attempts to flush more than €30,000 of the drug down the toilet, the Irish Times reports.At Ennis Circuit Court, Det Garda Stephen Ryan described how after gardaí entered the home of Gerard Delaney (23) of Inis Eagla, Shannon, on August 22nd, 2007, Delaney was flushing the cocaine packed in a plastic bag down the toilet. Det Garda Ryan reached his hand down into the toilet bowl and retrieved the plastic bag.
In court, Delaney pleaded guilty to the sale and supply of €34,061 of cocaine along with heroin and MDMA. Delaney also pleaded guilty to two offences where he robbed a total of €1,415 in cash from two Shannon stores on March 9th, 2008, by brandishing a nine-inch knife. Judge Raymond Fullam sentenced Delaney to two years for the drug dealing offence and two concurrent sentences of two years for the robberies.
