{"id":277949,"date":"2026-02-03T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277949\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:30:08","slug":"man-confesses-to-having-e73k-worth-of-drugs-in-cork-storage-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277949\/","title":{"rendered":"Man confesses to having \u20ac73k worth of drugs in Cork storage unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A 45-year-old Cork man accused of having over \u20ac70,000 worth of drugs stashed in a commercial storage unit at Monahan Road in 2024 has confessed to the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Andrzej Jasiniecki, who resides at an apartment at Hewitt Hall, Blackpool, signed a plea of guilty to five counts under the Misuse of Drugs Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Detective Garda Robert Kennedy brought the fifth charge against the 45-year-old, and it was the most serious of the counts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">It stated that on July 31, 2024, at a unit of Boxed Storage, Monaghan Road, he had in his possession cannabis and amphetamine for the purpose of sale or supply, with the drugs having a market value in excess of \u20ac13,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The significance of that valuation is that it can carry a 10-year sentence unless there are exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The actual valuation of the drugs was \u20ac60,000 for the cannabis and \u20ac13,000 for the amphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The accused was represented by solicitor Joseph Cuddigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">On the application of Sergeant John Dineen, Judge John King sent the case forward from Cork District Court for sentencing at the sessions of Cork Circuit Criminal Court, commencing on February 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old Cork man accused of having over \u20ac70,000 worth of drugs stashed in a commercial storage unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-277949","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\/277949","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=277949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}