Garda collusion in drug trafficking

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I stumbled across this earlier about convicted drug trafficker Kieran Boylan, first he's caught with heroine and cocaine worth €750,000 in dublin port, actually I'll copy and paste the timeline, I've never heard of this case before now, quite amazing he's walked free from court when it's supposedly 10 year mandatory sentence for any drugs with a value of €10,000, to date he's been caught with €2,450,000 and claims the garda knew and he even supplied them with bags of drugs to entrap small time dealers and further their careers.
He did 2 years total in prison from December 2005 to December 2007 and is now free, that simply doesnt happen in general, I know of people (maybe even most of the entrapment subjects) that have got 10 years for far less amounts, how high does this really go, surely the gardai involved and Boylan should have had the book thrown at them, but seemingly not, they even gave him a new haulage licence 21/2 years ago, which was revoked simply because of public outcry, but now he may have a new one, definately something really fishy going on with the state and this drug dealer.

Timeline:
December 2003: Boylan is caught with heroin and cocaine worth €750,000 at Dublin Port. He is charged and released on bail.

October 2005: The Garda National Drugs Unit (GNDU) catch Boylan with heroin and cocaine worth €1.7m in Ardee, Co Louth. Boylan claims other gardai knew he had the drugs and alludes to his involvement in entrapment operations.

December 2005: Boylan stands trial for the docklands haul and is sentenced to five years in prison, two of them suspended.

June 2006: Charges relating to the seizure of drugs in Co Louth are struck out. This follows representations to the DPP by senior gardai.

August 2006: A Co Louth woman claims her life was threatened by Boylan after she gave gardai information on the location of a drugs haul. An intruder later breaks into her home and threatens to murder her if she makes a statement.

February 2007: The Sunday Times publishes details of an alleged conspiracy that prompts opposition TDs to raise the case in the Dail. An internal Garda inquiry recommends re-charging Boyle with the Co Louth haul.

April 2007: Boylan is re-charged with the Co Louth haul.

December 2007: Boylan is freed after completing his sentence or the Docklands haul. The garda ombudsman begins an investigation after the Co Louth woman threatened by Boylan lodges a formal complaint.

June 2008: The Sunday Times publishes a report alleging that a garda has admitted to a senior officer that he took part in entrapment operations involving Boylan. Michael McCarthy, an assistant commissioner, is asked to investigate the Co Louth drugs haul.

July 31: The DPP enters a “nolle prosequi” although a date for Boylan’s trial had been set for January. Opposition TDs call on GSOC to launch a full inquiry into the affair on public interest grounds.



Questions as Kieran Boylan case dropped

The convicted drug dealer's garda links are under scrutiny after he walks free

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4450501.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

Kieran Boylan’s sister talks to gardai

Sister of drug trafficker comes forward

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5537429.ece

Kieran Boylan: the drug dealer licensed to trade

He was helped by the transport department and gardai

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6122828.ece

State broke rules for drug dealer

The transport department issued Kieran Boylan with a haulier’s licence despite his drug trafficking convictions

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6123165.ece

Probe into allegations of garda collusion
http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2008/oct/12/probe-into-allegations-of-garda-collusion/

Noel Dempsey has said he is reviewing the file relating to the granting of a haulier's licence to a convicted drug trafficker, Kieran Boylan.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0421/boylank.html

This is because Boylan pleaded guilty to accepting €750,000 worth of cocaine and heroin at a court sitting in February 2006. He will be able to apply for a new licence on February 2011.

Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/drug-dealer-free-to-get-haulage-licence-98509.html#ixzz1OnJoJpEj

Hookah

Declan Griffin was another one.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1999/10/23/ipage_13.htm

As long as you're an informant you pretty much have diplomatic immunity. That's how our so called 'justice system' works. Some guys get free rein so long as they hand up others to keep the Garda statistics rolling along. It's standard practice.

charlemont

http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/primetimeonurlingforddrugs.htm

This is a link to an article involving drugs been seized in Urlingford.

iPlop

I'm bet corruption is rife in the Gardaí as it is in the government, a whole load of "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" kind of thing.Whilst the majority are nice hardworking people ,I saw certain things happen to people I know over the years that have led me to believe otherwise.

WakeUp

The chap is obviously a Garda informer and his information must have been/is useful to them. Being such a blatant tout though it surprises me he is still walking the streets in one piece he has had to have ruffled a few feathers of his associates in the past the Guards are probably protecting him as an "asset". That happens all the time most intelligence comes from "sources" or touts thats the way it has been for ever. I wouldnt say he sleeps to well at night and rightly so scumbag heroin dealer killing people with his poison he should be locked up and the key thrown away.

Penn

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jakdelad

you really are surprised????

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jakdelad wrote: »

you really are surprised????

No not surprised in the slightest, but there are some people who would dismiss this notion without further thought, this is known as the lunatic forum, but thats just ignorance of people who think bad things don't come from "good" people.
But not surprised, no.

studiorat

From Aug 2008 discussion.

Finnbar01

Didn't the garda ombudsman release a report a good while back saying that different groups of gardaí were playing each other off via Boylan, they were playing some sort of 'I have a bigger mickey' competition????

I also don't understand this from the Examiner:

Correspondence between the two parties ran parallel to a controversial Garda decision to drop charges against Boylan after €1.7 million of drugs was found in his yard.

I thought it's up to the DDP who would decide were to drop charges or not?!?!?