AN OUT-of-work chef caught selling heroin substitute metadone on the street was financing his own drug addiction at the time, a court heard.
After he got clean, Farzad Tavakolipour (54) was left with a €2,000 drug debt and stole petrol from a filling station so he could drive his pregnant girlfriend around.
Judge Bryan Smyth gave him a four-month suspended sentence and fined him €200.
Tavakolipour, of Inverness Road, Fairview, pleaded guilty to possession of methadone for sale or supply, and theft.
Dublin District Court heard gardaí were on patrol at Townsend Street on May 20, 2019 when they saw the accused, who was in a car, interact with another man.