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Legal aid was granted to Mr O\u2019Brien and Mr Gallagher while two legal counsel were assigned for the McGinty defendants.<\/p>\n
Michael McGinty is to go before the Circuit Court on two charges while Patrick McGinty has been sent forward on three charges.<\/p>\n
Doherty\u2019s solicitor, Mr Frank Dorrian, told the court that the book of evidence served on his client did not contain interviews with \u201cother parties charged, who one images were co-conspirators\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Dorrian said the book \u201calleges a very complicated offence\u201d and said the book was \u201cinadequate\u201d in those circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe may want to consider a signed plea, I don\u2019t know, but that\u2019s not something that he should forego casually,\u201d Mr Dorrian said.,<\/p>\n
Sergeant Collins told Judge Daly that interviews are exhibits and would be sent electronically to the solicitor.<\/p>\n
Mr Dorrian said that the nature of the charge is complex and he would need time to assess the book before making a decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I am concerned about are interviews of other people, in order for it to be established with whom we are alleged to have been conspiring,\u201d Mr Dorrian said, \u201cThe stakes are very high\u2026The advantage of a signed plea under these circumstances could be enormous for my client.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doherty\u2019s case will go before Letterkenny District Court on May 25.<\/p>\n
Patrick McGinty is charged that between December 5, 2024 and April 1, 2025, at various locations within the State, did conspire with Christopher Doherty to commit offences under sections 15, 15A and 21 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977\/84 which constitutes a serious offence, contrary to section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2006.<\/p>\n
Doherty is charged that, on December 5, 2024 and on various dates up April 1, 2025, at various locations within the State, he did conspire with Patrick McGinty to commit offences contrary to Section 15, 15A and 21 of the Misuse of Drugs 1977\/1984 which constitutes a serious offence, contrary to section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2006.<\/p>\n
Patrick McGinty and Michael McGinty are also charged that on dates between March 20, 2025 and April 1, 2025 at a location within the State, they did unlawfully import a controlled drug, namely cannabis, in contravention of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2017 to 2019, made under section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977.<\/p>\n
The charge is contrary to section 21(2) and section 27 (as substituted by section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1984) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977.<\/p>\n
The McGinty brothers are also charged with having cannabis for the purpose of selling or otherwise supplying the drug to another in contravention of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, 2017 to 2019 made under section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 and at the time while the drug was in his possession, the market value of the controlled drug amounted to \u20ac13,000 or more.<\/p>\n
This charge is contrary to Section 15A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 as inserted by section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1999 and contrary to section 27 (3A) of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 as substituted by section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.<\/p>\n
They have also been charged with having in their possession a controlled drug, namely cannabis, for the purpose of selling or otherwise supplying it to another, contrary to section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and contrary to section 27 (3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 as substituted by section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984.<\/p>\n
They also face a charge of being in possession of a controlled drug, to wit, namely cannabis, a charge contrary to section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and contrary to 27 (1) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 as substituted by section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have re-appeared in court in connection with a major \u20ac2.2 million cannabis seizure in Ballybofey. Twin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-421368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421368","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=421368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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