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Man evicted tenants for growing cannabis, then set up own grow house, court told Man offered €5,000 to begin grow-house operation, court told
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The man had burned 33 cannabis plants which he discovered his tenants growing. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
A man who evicted tenants from his property after he found out that they had set up a cannabis grow house only to then take over the operation himself has received a two-year suspended sentence.
John Sheahan (48) pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to possessing cannabis for sale or supply and to cultivating cannabis without a licence at his home at Ardglass, Charleville, Co Cork on October 23rd, 2019.
A 48 year old North Corkman has been given an opportunity to come up with €5,000 for donation to charity or face going to jail after he was caught running a cannabis growhouse that he took over when he evicted some Eastern Europeans who had set up the operation on his property.
Carpenter John Sheahan pleaded guilty when he was arraigned at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to both possessing cannabis for sale or supply and to cultivating cannabis without a licence at his home at Ardglass, Charleville, on October 23, 2019.
Det Garda Will Hosford of Mallow Garda Station told the court how gardai carried out a search of Sheahan s house and found a sophisticated cannabis growhouse with lights and a watering system set up in a shipping container in his back yard.