Two-year sentence for cannabis possession
A Dublin plasterer has been given a two-year suspended sentence for letting another man have €14000 worth of cannabis resin in his car.
Derek Boylon (aged 28) Belcamp Gardens, Coolock, pleaded guilty to allowing 1,984 grammes of the drug to be under the front passenger seat of his Peugot car on Oscar Traynor Road, Santry on November 29, 2004.
Sargeant Noel Nolan told prosecution counsel, Mr Paul Carroll BL in Dublin Cricuit Criminal Court, that he searched the vehicle and found eight bars of cannabis resin under the passenger seat.
He said Boylon ran off but was spotted and arrested by gardaí the following February in a shopping centre.
He agreed with defence counsel, Mr Bernard Condon BL, that the prosecution accepts that the father of two didn’t own the drugs.
Judge Frank O'Donnell noted that there was a positive probation report before the court and suspended the prison term on condition that Boylan keep the peace and be of good behaviour for four years. He also fined him €1,000 and gave him six months to pay it.
