Two Dublin men accused of using a drone to fly more than \u20ac6,000 worth of drugs into Cloverhill Prison have been granted bail.<\/p>\n
Craig Doyle, 25, of the Paddocks Way, Adamstown, Lucan, and 30-year-old Adam Aspel, with an address at Corkagh Grange Way, Clondalkin, were arrested by garda\u00ed carrying out surveillance of drone activity on March 28th.<\/p>\n
On Monday, they appeared at Dublin District Court, where Judge Treasa Kelly set bail with a range of conditions, including “no drone activity”.<\/p>\n
Each man is charged with unlawful possession of cannabis, heroin, and tablets estimated to be worth \u20ac6,422, conveying controlled drugs into a prison, and using a drone to fly drugs into Cloverhill Prison in west Dublin.<\/p>\n
Ronanstown-based Garda Kevin Duff alleged the pair were observed in an area of Collinstown Park, near Cloverhill and Wheatfield Prisons.<\/p>\n
Objecting to Aspel’s bail, he alleged that garda\u00ed had observed two men in the area. He said Aspel went to the far side of a hedge and ran.<\/p>\n
He maintained that Aspel tried to evade garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Drugs were found on the ground and more beside a drone and its controller in a hedge.<\/p>\n
Garda Duff said the drone had been activated because its lights were on.<\/p>\n
Cross-examined by defence solicitor Donal Quigley, he conceded that he did not see Aspel discard anything.<\/p>\n
The defence solicitor emphasised that the evidence was not strong, that his client was in a field adjacent to the incident, and no one saw him do anything.<\/p>\n
Quigley stressed his client happened to be there at the time and denies the charges.<\/p>\n
Judge Kelly held that bail terms could be applied.<\/p>\n
There was also consent for Doyle to be released with conditions. His solicitor, Colleen Gildernew, said that a lengthy period was required to obtain directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions and to have the drugs analysed.<\/p>\n
They must stay away from the two prisons, be contactable by phone, and have no drone activity whatsoever.<\/p>\n
Doyle’s case was adjourned until September, while his co-accused will appear again on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Dublin men accused of using a drone to fly more than \u20ac6,000 worth of drugs into Cloverhill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-373487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373487","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=373487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}