Two people have been sentenced following a drugs seizure of €850,000 (72 kilos) worth of cannabis in Dingle last July.Spanish national Ignacio Goyeneche and Lisa Basire, with an address in Ballyhea near Dingle pleaded guilty to ‘possession for sale or supply’ at the hearing in Tralee District Court last Monday - Judge Carroll Moran sentencing Goyeneche to seven years in prison and Basire to three years.
Following an anonymous tip-off, the cannabis was discovered in early morning raids in several locations around Dingle last summer and it has emerged that the drugs were smuggled into the town by a Spanish crime gang using an Irish trawler. The drugs travelled aboard the trawler from Northern Spain to Bantry in Cork to Dingle.
According to Goyeneche’s testimony,the majority, 65 kilos worth €785,000, was stashed in hidden compartments under a bed in the home of Lisa Basire in Ballyhea. The rest, 50 bales worth €76,000, was hidden behind panels in the boot of Goyeneche’s Volvo car.
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