A bag containing cannabis and \u20ac4,900 in cash was discovered by garda\u00ed during a search of a room at Old Blackrock Road in Cork, and now a man who was arrested at the time has been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n
Garda Diarmuid Murphy objected to bail being granted to Rokib Lahadyo (28), at Cork District Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Solicitor Eddie Burke suggested it was a suitable case for bail and stressed that there was no money-laundering charge against the accused.<\/p>\n
However, Judge Mary Dorgan refused bail and remanded the accused in custody until September 19.<\/p>\n
The defendant is charged with possession of cannabis and having the drug for sale or supply at a room where he was staying at Rockboro Avenue, Old Blackrock Road, Cork, on September 11.<\/p>\n
Garda Murphy testified that during a search under warrant the bag containing cannabis was found, and within it a smaller bag containing \u20ac4,900 was found together with his passport.<\/p>\n
Mr Burke solicitor said the accused was working and that the cash represented savings.<\/p>\n
Cross-examined by Sergeant John Kelleher, Mr Lahadyo admitted that his work pay would go directly into his account rather than coming to him in cash.<\/p>\n
Judge Dorgan asked about the valuation of the cannabis and was told that it had a street value of \u20ac250.<\/p>\n
The defendant said during his bail application: \u201cI am not drug-taking or drug-dealing. I have not had cannabis since April 1. I would take a urine test \u2013 there are no drugs in my system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In refusing bail, judge Dorgan said: \u201cEffectively, garda\u00ed executed a warrant that would have been obtained on sworn information. Evidence is very, very strong. A significant sum in cash was found with the cannabis. I have heard he was caught red-handed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The judge then refused bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bag containing cannabis and \u20ac4,900 in cash was discovered by garda\u00ed during a search of a room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-23390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}