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Mothers house raided for drug's

  • 22-08-2012 11:27am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭


    Hi all.

    Just want to share a story and see do we need to do anything to make sure it dos'nt happen again.......

    Last night my mother went off to bingo like she does every tuesday night, my brother his partner and 4 year old daughter live there and he was quietly sitting watching tv around 11pm. He had the poarch door closed over but the hall door open when this scruffy looking fella just let himself in and stood there looking at him. He said it was about 30 sec's before he relised there was a junky ( so he thought) standing in the house.

    As he jumped up to get th guy out and he pulled out a wallet and flashed a garda badge, as he did 6 other gards ran into the house. 3 ran upstairs and 3 ran to the kitchen. My sis-inlaw screamed because the 4 year old was in bed and she had'nt a clue what was happening.

    Another garda flashed a warrent at my bro, he said she would not let him handle the warrent and there was only an address on it. The sis-inlaw ran up to get the child and they stopped her asking her where the drugs was before they would let her get the child. She told them there was no drugs and they laughed at her....

    She got the child and was told to sit in the living room. Also they would not let the child use the toilet......

    They took my brother into the kitchen and told him they have been watching him and they KNOW there is cocain in the house and have found evidence.... So my brother asked them to show him.... They brought in 3 tesco plastic shopping bags that was in the attic about 2 years that had ornaments in them and told the bro that they were used to hold drugs... My bro then told them to arrest him now because he shops in tescos and has plastic bags all over the house....

    After searching the house and finding nothing because there was nothing to find my bro asked them where they got the info, at this point they said they were given information and had also been watching him selling it from the house..... LMAO lies because there is no such thing.

    Heres the clincher..... My mothers neighbor in a herion dealer and has 100's of customers coming to the door every day selling it... He was caught 3 times selling to an undercover dective and got 250 hours community service but still sells drugs.... While the gards were searching the house people on the street kept telling them they had the wrong house because everyone knows my family and knows who the dealer is.......

    But heres the question, Does my bro or mother need to do anything to stop this happening again. Does my mothers house now have a target painted by the drug squad??...

    Any info would help greatly.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭corcaigh1


    Speak to a solicitor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    Your brother and mother need to go into the station and ask to see the seargent and explain everything without going off on one I understand a huge sock the whole situation must have been but if they did mistakenly mix your mums house for the drug dealers next door you should be and all neighbours why are you letting someone like that live next door.

    Take photo's and put in cctv on the house and keep complaining and if you all do complain already keep it up and send letters to the minister and top ranking gaurds.

    Best of luck ...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Let your brother deal with it himself. If you are wrong and he really is dealing then you will just be making an eejit of yourself. If you are right and he isn't dealing then it's unlikely the house will be searched again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    MagicSean wrote: »
    Let your brother deal with it himself. If you are wrong and he really is dealing then you will just be making an eejit of yourself. If you are right and he isn't dealing then it's unlikely the house will be searched again.

    I know for a fact that he is not dealing and has never had any dealings...... My issue is how they can raid a house on a whim.... They said they have been watching him. Thats bull, they said they knew there was drugs, more bull... They said they were told there was drugs, that I believe. It just happens that another house was raided across the road from my mothers yeasterday at 6 in the eve and they found a bail of cocain and arrested the guy.

    So im thinking the guy that was arrested has gave information to the gards about my mothers neighbor but the gards got the wrong address.... So that leads me to believe that they got a search warrent on the strenght of a convicted drug dealers say so.....

    How is that even legal?.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    Your brother and mother need to go into the station and ask to see the seargent and explain everything without going off on one I understand a huge sock the whole situation must have been but if they did mistakenly mix your mums house for the drug dealers next door you should be and all neighbours why are you letting someone like that live next door.

    Take photo's and put in cctv on the house and keep complaining and if you all do complain already keep it up and send letters to the minister and top ranking gaurds.

    Best of luck ...

    I wish it was that easy, I am assuming the neighbor in a snitch because he is able to walk the streets after selling heroin to an undercover detective and not even spend a night in a cell..... There has been complaints made and it falls on deff ears.... Then theres the issue of fear, these people are not afraid to hurt people.

    My mother is a 56 year old widow that also buried a son that died in prison, she just wants to be left alone so she walks around with her eyes closed for fear of these scum attacking her house....

    People that snitch to the gards are left alone, how else do these scum bags walk around with 80 charge sheets while while I'm in court for no telly licence........


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    Dont be stressing over if it is legal or not of course it is you kn ow now the cops do get it wrong sometimes and anyone could have said your brother was doing it or maybe they just said that when they noticed it may be the wrong house.

    Are you not happy they are actually doing their job and catching the drug dealers you have mentioned one next door and one directly across the road.

    I would be even more upset if it was seen that they done nothing about these and the legal system in this country needs to change.

    Is there neighbourhood watch system in place or some sort of community based system they should be pushing these drug dealers out if not for themselves but for the next generation and the small children that will probably be taken in and become involved in the horrible road of crime and drugs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    oldat31 wrote: »
    I wish it was that easy, I am assuming the neighbor in a snitch because he is able to walk the streets after selling heroin to an undercover detective and not even spend a night in a cell..... There has been complaints made and it falls on deff ears.... Then theres the issue of fear, these people are not afraid to hurt people.

    My mother is a 56 year old widow that also buried a son that died in prison, she just wants to be left alone so she walks around with her eyes closed for fear of these scum attacking her house....

    People that snitch to the gards are left alone, how else do these scum bags walk around with 80 charge sheets while while I'm in court for no telly licence........

    The best you usually here is that the person had a hard life and doesnt know right from wrong and they were only minding or transporting the drugs as they are in fear of their life cop on people.

    If you are dealing thats it thats what you are doing nothing else should be said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    The best you usually here is that the person had a hard life and doesnt know right from wrong and they were only minding or transporting the drugs as they are in fear of their life cop on people.

    If you are dealing thats it thats what you are doing nothing else should be said.

    I agree... Locked up straight away, no fuss......

    Also I agree that the garda are only doing a job and thats why none of us have made complaints about how they treated the people in the house... innocent till proven guilty seems to be something the garda has forgot and treat everyone like they are something that was scraped off their shoe. They never once said sorry we got the wrong info, they never once spoke nice to anyone. Everyone was selling cocain and they knew it because they have been " watching the house ".

    I have the utmost respect for garda and the job they do, sure I was going to become one. I have no problem with the house getting raided because its a waist of their time and tax payers money.....

    What I do have a problem with is, will my mothers house now become a target for the drug squad, is there now a file in the station about my mothers house that brands them dealers....... BTW its a council house and all this goes on record in the council.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    They have to show you the warrant and allow you read it. They can only check the bedroom of the person named in the warrant if there is more than 1 person living there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    The protection of their 'dwelling' is a constitutional one. Rest assured they don't raid on a whim. Get ye (them) down to the station and have a word. If you're not happy with the outcome contact your local FLAC centre fro advice.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    They have to show you the warrant and allow you read it. They can only check the bedroom of the person named in the warrant if there is more than 1 person living there.

    There was no name on the warrent, just an address.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    The protection of their 'dwelling' is a constitutional one. Rest assured they don't raid on a whim. Get ye (them) down to the station and have a word. If you're not happy with the outcome contact your local FLAC centre fro advice.

    So if they dont raid on a whim they have some sort of evidence that says there was cocain in my mothers house?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Predalien


    Sounds like a difficult situation to be in so my sympathies to the OP. I have heard of this kind of thing happening before, reality is though as it's searches for drugs the Gardai don't want to give any warning that might result in the destruction of the offending substances so they tend to just turn up/burst in. If all is as the OP says though they should have been more careful about their information, perhaps the Garda Ombudsman could be informed of the circumstances?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    They have to show you the warrant and allow you read it. They can only check the bedroom of the person named in the warrant if there is more than 1 person living there.

    Think you're a little mixed up there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    oldat31 wrote: »
    So if they dont raid on a whim they have some sort of evidence that says there was cocain in my mothers house?

    Evidence isn't always correct.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Some waste of taxpayers money, That's the second person on here in recent weeks who had their house raided and nothing was found.

    My mothers neighbor in a herion dealer and has 100's of customers coming to the door every day selling it... He was caught 3 times selling to an undercover dective and got 250 hours community service but still sells drugs.... While the gards were searching the house people on the street kept telling them they had the wrong house because everyone knows my family and knows who the dealer is.......

    Its a clincher alright, Have you wondered why he didn't let you handle the warrant ?? Didn't want you see it ?? ;)

    Tesco bags Ha Ha
    The joke is on us though as we are the people who must deal with this type of ineptitude and incompetence,

    The Heroin dealers across the country are only laughing at the Guards as I said before we need the Army involved in stopping Heroin importation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    Just talking to the ma and she wants to let things settle. Shes not worried because she knows it was a case of wrong information. So we wont be making a trip to the station....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Everybody makes mistakes, I don't expect the Guards not to either but I just think if they are going to raid a house and a person or families privacy, They should make sure they know what they are doing. They should have evidence or intelligence regarding the people who live there.
    Ireland is a small place its not too hard to figure out what's what in any particular community, Like you said about the neighbours telling the Guards having the wrong house, I bet any Guard who spends time dealing with incidents on that street would have known it was the wrong house too.


    Regarding my comment about Heroin, I will say though I'v noticed a big decrease in Junkies around Cork in the last few weeks which is a good thing, They must have raided a few correct house and long may that continue.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    Evidence isn't always correct.

    The "evidence" is generally a tip off. Or more than a tip off. An associate or business rival gives detailed information.

    Crime is a difficult business. So many of your associates are flakes or crooks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    krd wrote: »
    The "evidence" is generally a tip off. Or more than a tip off. An associate or business rival gives detailed information.

    Crime is a difficult business. So many of your associates are flakes or crooks.

    I'm sure the rather double edged meaning of that was intention KRD :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    charlemont wrote: »
    Everybody makes mistakes, I don't expect the Guards not to either but I just think if they are going to raid a house and a person or families privacy, They should make sure they know what they are doing. They should have evidence or intelligence regarding the people who live there.
    Ireland is a small place its not too hard to figure out what's what in any particular community, Like you said about the neighbours telling the Guards having the wrong house, I bet any Guard who spends time dealing with incidents on that street would have known it was the wrong house too.


    Regarding my comment about Heroin, I will say though I'v noticed a big decrease in Junkies around Cork in the last few weeks which is a good thing, They must have raided a few correct house and long may that continue.
    No doubt a harrowing experience for all involved but one point to make.
    We only know one side of the story (I am not inferring anything about the OP or their family just stating a fact).
    They Gardai may have had intelligence or they may have made a mistake. Either way it is worth a visit to the station to clarify and if you get no joy there perhaps you need to get further legal advice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,055 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    If that happened to me I would go to the Ombudsman. I support the Garda 100% in the fight against criminals and drug dealers but if they got information and didn't watch the house to see evidence of drug dealing to back up the information before raiding it then I would complain. It's lazy policing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    If that happened to me I would go to the Ombudsman. I support the Garda 100% in the fight against criminals and drug dealers but if they got information and didn't watch the house to see evidence of drug dealing to back up the information before raiding it then I would complain. It's lazy policing.

    It wouldnt really be a case for the ombudsman though, its the judge that signed the warrant that has to ensure the evidence is substantial enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,055 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    MagicSean wrote: »
    It wouldnt really be a case for the ombudsman though, its the judge that signed the warrant that has to ensure the evidence is substantial enough.

    But surely the judge just goes on the Garda's information/story and issues a warrant? It's the Garda information that should convince the judge to grant the warrant surely.
    If someone told me that there was a drug dealer after moving in beside me then I would watch to see the comings and goings before even reporting it to the Garda. Comings and goings of strangers etc.Surely you can't act on any old bit of a story and have to have a certain amount of proof?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭rubadubduba


    I see they are still playing with the bogie warrants, thats why they wont let you read it . they must have something to hide.
    i would go to the garda and find out who issued the warrant because somebody was'nt doing their job right and was just acting on hearsay they should have been a100 percent before they made their move and they were'nt.they got it wrong again.

    http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/SP12000202


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭McCrack


    OP to get this resolved your mother needs to contact a solicitor who can make the appropriate enquiries on her behalf to establish the bona fides or otherwise of the warrant and the correctness of the Garda action.

    Trips to the station to make complaints, letters or words with the police will do nothing. Similarly the Ombudsman at this stage cannot do anything.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    If someone told me that there was a drug dealer after moving in beside me then I would watch to see the comings and goings before even reporting it to the Garda. Comings and goings of strangers etc.

    Dealing out of your house is very old school. Comings and goings of strangers generally arouses suspicion. With the advent and ubiquity of mobile phones, drugs these days are delivered more like pizza.
    Surely you can't act on any old bit of a story and have to have a certain amount of proof?

    I believe most times the information is correct.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭rubadubduba


    something for the legal team.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/50000-damages-for-woman-after-gardai-raid-the-wrong-house-3161013.html

    A WOMAN whose home was raided by mistake by gardai was today awarded €50,000 damages by a High Court judge.



    Paula Hamlett, Mr Justice Sean Ryan said, suffered a frightening, embarrassing and humiliating experience when gardai raided and searched her home in the mistaken belief they were at another address.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    something for the legal team.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/50000-damages-for-woman-after-gardai-raid-the-wrong-house-3161013.html

    A WOMAN whose home was raided by mistake by gardai was today awarded €50,000 damages by a High Court judge.



    Paula Hamlett, Mr Justice Sean Ryan said, suffered a frightening, embarrassing and humiliating experience when gardai raided and searched her home in the mistaken belief they were at another address.

    Thats an error rather than a legitimate search that didn't turn anything up.

    Do the Gardai knock here - I would have thought it'd be a battering ram.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭rubadubduba


    Thats an error rather than a legitimate search that didn't turn anything up.

    Do the Gardai knock here - I would have thought it'd be a battering ram.

    read the link .

    they rang the doorbell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    read the link .

    they rang the doorbell.

    Thanks for that - I missed the statistical analysis of what generally happens during a raid. I only saw the one example given.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    But surely the judge just goes on the Garda's information/story and issues a warrant? It's the Garda information that should convince the judge to grant the warrant surely.
    If someone told me that there was a drug dealer after moving in beside me then I would watch to see the comings and goings before even reporting it to the Garda. Comings and goings of strangers etc.Surely you can't act on any old bit of a story and have to have a certain amount of proof?

    If the information was bad then it is the Gardas mistake. If the information is lacking cause then the judge shouldn't issue the warrant.
    I see they are still playing with the bogie warrants, thats why they wont let you read it . they must have something to hide.
    i would go to the garda and find out who issued the warrant because somebody was'nt doing their job right and was just acting on hearsay they should have been a100 percent before they made their move and they were'nt.they got it wrong again.

    http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/SP12000202

    They won't let you take the warrant because it is a legal document which must be retained by them as evidence. There is no requirement to hand it to them and no Garda ever will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    Reading back on some of these posts makes me question are we right to just let it slide?

    1: The Garda said they have been watching the house and KNOW there is major drug dealing going on, and that they have been given information to lead to believe there is dealing going on and that's how they go the warrant......

    2: The judge signs warrants on a whim.

    Ether way the warrant was given unfairly, the people in the house at the time were treated like criminals and refused a child the use of a toilet.

    I know for a fact ( I cant make you believe me ) that there has never been any drug dealing from my mothers address, so which means the gards straight up lied about watching the house and seeing the dealing going on. But maybe they used that as a scare tactic?.......

    So that means the only other reason is the guy that was arrested earlier in the day grassed on the dealer that lives next to my mother but they got the address wrong. So that means a judge signed the warrant on a whim because it was on the say so of another convicted drug dealer...


    The warrant had my mothers address on it, so they searched the right house but yet they couldn't name a single person that lived there..... It all sounds very rushed to me which lead to them getting the info wrong and searching the wrong house.....

    But I still have the question of: will this go against my mother in the garda files or Dublin co, council?

    I assume it stays on record that the address was searched for drugs?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭miller50841


    oldat31 wrote: »
    Reading back on some of these posts makes me question are we right to just let it slide?

    1: The Garda said they have been watching the house and KNOW there is major drug dealing going on, and that they have been given information to lead to believe there is dealing going on and that's how they go the warrant......

    2: The judge signs warrants on a whim.

    Ether way the warrant was given unfairly, the people in the house at the time were treated like criminals and refused a child the use of a toilet.

    I know for a fact ( I cant make you believe me ) that there has never been any drug dealing from my mothers address, so which means the gards straight up lied about watching the house and seeing the dealing going on. But maybe they used that as a scare tactic?.......

    So that means the only other reason is the guy that was arrested earlier in the day grassed on the dealer that lives next to my mother but they got the address wrong. So that means a judge signed the warrant on a whim because it was on the say so of another convicted drug dealer...


    The warrant had my mothers address on it, so they searched the right house but yet they couldn't name a single person that lived there..... It all sounds very rushed to me which lead to them getting the info wrong and searching the wrong house.....

    But I still have the question of: will this go against my mother in the garda files or Dublin co, council?

    I assume it stays on record that the address was searched for drugs?

    As I said your mum and brother should call the local garda station ask would it be possible to talk to the Seargent or just go in and ask to speak to him I do believe what you have said and if you explain the situation about being worried and things been on file and further trouble that may arise from the raid I would like to think he would be able to help and maybe he may be able to explain things better.

    I understand there are bad guards also some at this stage don't seem to give a flute what goes on around them and others are great but its the same in all walks of life.

    Let us know how they get on and really think people should get together and tip off the council and social welfare and guards that the actuall drug dealers that are neighbours are up to that .

    There are numbers and even the social welfare has a way of tipping off anonomously on their home page. nonoe would ever know who told.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    I would find out what judge signed it and why. All judges have stamps that print their signature on warrants, and court staff are allowed to stamp the judge's warrants. Maybe the gardai used this tactic, they should have shown you the warrant, and allowed you to read it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    big-mommas-house-jpg.jpg

    Drugs you say....... never ....???


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    oldat31 wrote: »
    So that means the only other reason is the guy that was arrested earlier in the day grassed on the dealer that lives next to my mother but they got the address wrong. So that means a judge signed the warrant on a whim because it was on the say so of another convicted drug dealer...

    That's sound like what happened.
    The warrant had my mothers address on it, so they searched the right house but yet they couldn't name a single person that lived there..... It all sounds very rushed to me which lead to them getting the info wrong and searching the wrong house.....

    That they didn't know anyone who lived in the house sounds very suspicious.

    I've known people who have been raided. And typically, and this comes as a big shock to the people being raided, the garda knew everything, addressed everyone by their first names, knew precisely where to look.

    It's not that the garda have magical powers to KNOW everything. They just get their information straight before they do a raid. If there's a drug stash in the house it may be very well hidden.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    I would find out what judge signed it and why. All judges have stamps that print their signature on warrants, and court staff are allowed to stamp the judge's warrants. Maybe the gardai used this tactic, they should have shown you the warrant, and allowed you to read it.

    AFAIK, they don't have to show you the warrant there and then nor do they need to have it on them when they are raiding your house.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    AFAIK, they don't have to show you the warrant there and then nor do they need to have it on them when they are raiding your house.

    That depends on what the raid is for....

    They do have to produce a warrent for search on the spot. The warrent has to have an address and a reason on it.

    If it was the case they did'nt have to show one then they can just raid as they like and then worry when the person comes after them for a warrent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    oldat31 wrote: »
    That depends on what the raid is for....

    They do have to produce a warrent for search on the spot. The warrent has to have an address and a reason on it.

    If it was the case they did'nt have to show one then they can just raid as they like and then worry when the person comes after them for a warrent.

    That's ridiculous. Of course they'd have to worry because they'd need to be able to produce one if accused of searching somewhere without it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    MagicSean wrote: »
    That's ridiculous. Of course they'd have to worry because they'd need to be able to produce one if accused of searching somewhere without it.

    Ok I live in Tallaght and you would be surprised at how many people think the Gards can do what they like.. I have seen Gards snatch phones out of peoples hands because the person being searched wanted to record it on video and the people say nothing because the garda tell them its illegal to record people without permission....lmao...

    I have seen Garda walk into peoples house without a search warrent and the people in the house say nothing because the Garda tell them they can....

    People fear the uniform and believe everything that comes out of their mouth because they a garda, they must know the law..... Right?

    Sure my mother told me to leave it because theres nothing anyone can do, its the garda...

    Most Garda know as much about the law as I do, a joe soap on the street.

    So its not that ridiculous because I reckon 99.9% would just take what the garda say as gospil anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭pm1977x


    OP, that situation is very unfortunate and no doubt very distressing for all involved, but all this 'the judge signed the warrant on a whim' stuff - what's the judge supposed to do, set up on a stakeout for a week to verify the info himself?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    pm1977x wrote: »
    OP, that situation is very unfortunate and no doubt very distressing for all involved, but all this 'the judge signed the warrant on a whim' stuff - what's the judge supposed to do, set up on a stakeout for a week to verify the info himself?

    No, because the Garda are wrong on both counts. Also how can the justify a search warrent JUST on the say so of a drug dealer.. And lie about where they go the info... Thats my issue, where does it stop...

    " Oh judge we think he killed him because this other murderer said he did, lets keep him in custody for 2 days "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    It seems that the gardaí were given false information (possibly deliberately because the informant could afterwards say that they got the house number wrong AND it's a way of tipping the real dealers off that the gardaí are around so they can get rid of the drugs = win win for the informant: no backlash from either parties).

    As for not allowing the child use the toilet, as harsh & cruel as it is the reason for this would be obvious: to stop someone going in with the child & flushing the drugs. In this case there were no drugs but if there were they wanted to prevent this happening.

    For all you know drug users/pushers could be using your mother's back or side entrance to access or leave the house next door, so if the house was being watched it might look as if the dealings were happening there & not next door. This may not be the case, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭oldat31


    It seems that the gardaí were given false information (possibly deliberately because the informant could afterwards say that they got the house number wrong AND it's a way of tipping the real dealers off that the gardaí are around so they can get rid of the drugs = win win for the informant: no backlash from either parties).

    As for not allowing the child use the toilet, as harsh & cruel as it is the reason for this would be obvious: to stop someone going in with the child & flushing the drugs. In this case there were no drugs but if there were they wanted to prevent this happening.

    For all you know drug users/pushers could be using your mother's back or side entrance to access or leave the house next door, so if the house was being watched it might look as if the dealings were happening there & not next door. This may not be the case, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

    Valid points, but....

    The toilet in question was a potty that was in the kitchen, the child was in the living room only 20 feet away.......

    My mothers house is in the middle of a block, 6 houses. Shes the 4th from the right.... So its not possible to get it wrong if they were watching.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    OP you said you just wanted to ensure they dont raid the house again.

    No one will guarantee that for you think about it it cant happen. Otherwise your ma s place would be ideal for selling drugs.

    The cops don't apply for warrants just to enter random dwellings. They have a reason you may never know it but there was one. Sadly most information about drugs comes from users or thieves. Few people with no connections to drugs know anything of any value.

    Nothing can be gained from dwelling on this.


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