Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on February 17, 2021, 06:31:04 pm
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https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/610518/man-who-transported-50-000-worth-of-drugs-from-dublin-to-longford-loses-appeal-to-have-taxi-licence-renewed.html (https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/610518/man-who-transported-50-000-worth-of-drugs-from-dublin-to-longford-loses-appeal-to-have-taxi-licence-renewed.html)
Man who transported €50,000 worth of drugs from Dublin to Longford loses appeal to have taxi licence renewed
A Longford taxi driver who allegedly transported drugs from Dublin to Longford once a week for a period of ten months has been refused the renewal of his taxi licence.
Charles James Carr (67), with an address in MacEoin Park, Longford, appeared before Judge Seamus Hughes at Longford District Court this morning to appeal the refusal of the renewal of his taxi licence.
Inspector Paddy McGirl, for the state, explained that the garda objection was based solely on Section 10(2)(a) of the Taxi Regulation Act of 2013, which deals with whether the applicant is of good character.
Mr Carr appeared in court to appeal the refusal of his taxi licence but was also facing two other charges for possession of drugs with intent to distribute. Both of those charges are pending a certificate of analysis and have been adjourned to May 11, 2021.
Solicitor for the accused, John Quinn, explained that his client would be pleading not guilty to the charges and requested that restrictions be placed on the media in the reporting of this case. Judge Hughes, however, said that he would not be prohibiting the press from reporting the appeal.
“The Circuit Court Judge is well capable of giving him a fair trial. I’m not restricting the press. I’m giving full reportage,” said Judge Hughes.
When called to the witness box, Chief Superintendent Tony Healy explained that he is the licencing authority in the district and that he refused Mr Carr’s application for the renewal of his taxi licence based on Section 10(2)(a) of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013.
When asked to outline his consideration and rationale for this decision, Chief Supt Healy explained that Mr Carr is facing a section 3 possession of drugs charge, as well as one count of possession of drugs with intent to distribute under section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
“The value of drugs was in the region of €50,000, which is a substantial amount of illegal drugs,” said Chief Supt Healy.
“I did not deem him of suitable character. Taxi drivers are in a position of extreme trust within the community. They interact with the public on a daily basis, so it was a matter of public safety.”
Following a lengthy appeal hearing, Judge Hughes refused to allow the renewal of Mr Carr's taxi licence.
"With your drug distribution, you have caused untold grief to mothers and fathers who are trying to keep their children off drugs.
"But you’re being used and abused. You’re on the last rung of the ladder. You now are going out of business and you will be replaced. I’m not going to start giving you a lecture because I’m not qualified to give you a lecture. But this is your appeal and you’ve lost it,” he concluded.
The criminal charges Mr Carr is facing will come back before Longford District Court on May 11, 2021, when DPP directions will be available.
See next week's Longford Leader for the entire report.
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So he hasn't been convicted of anything yet?
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So he hasn't been convicted of anything yet?
I guess if he gets off with the charge of travelling to Dublin and back forty times in a row with €50,000 worth of drugs each time, then there's every chance he can appeal to the Superintendent!
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dirty big garda surveillance job on him.
kinda hard to explain your away out of that.
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He's 67 y.o. - would ya bother looking for your licence back?
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he needs it so he can be waved through 5km garda checkpoints with a loada gear in the boot.
like clint eastwood when he played the old fogie drug mule in that movie a couple a years ago.
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he needs it so he can be waved through 5km garda checkpoints with a loada gear in the boot.
like clint eastwood when he played the old fogie drug mule in that movie a couple a years ago.
Routine can kill you.
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yes sir.
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yes sir.
Creamer ?
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Immigrant?
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Immigrant?
Is Carr a native Irish surname?
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We'll say no.
Damn immigrants...
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We'll say no.
Damn immigrants...
A Chara? 8)
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Immigrant?
Is Carr a native Irish surname?
We'll say no.
Damn immigrants...
I'll let my buddy know....before we hound him out of the country!!
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You have a buddy... gway outta that!
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You have a buddy... gway outta that!
I do...but his name is Carr....and clearly an immigrant by all accounts and he and his family need hounding out of the country and the house on Botanic Ave repossessed.
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The 2CV doesn't count as a buddy...
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Credit where credit is Due he was at it for ten months X by at least four weeks per month .Only took the Gards 40 attempts to catch him .Or should the Gard of said we caught him once Your Honour .Is he charged with 40 offences ?
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How much per run was he getting?
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How much per run was he getting?
About 5 years last two suspended .
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M'lud, I put it to you that my client was a talented footballer. He passed the Gardai 39 times before being stopped.
He was also a team player, alas, because of his advanced years he doesn't remember the captain's name , having only met approximately 40 times.
The damage done to the country is a lot less than that of David Drumm's crimes. So I'd ask that in the event of a custodial sentence that my client be considered for the beautiful lakeside location of Loughan House.
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more bad news.
the hoover is the only thing keeping the taxi game moving at the moment.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/)
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more bad news.
the hoover is the only thing keeping the taxi game moving at the moment.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/)
DEEP RUMMAGE OFFICERS including a container x-ray scanner, drug dog detection teams, and deep rummage officers.Spread your Cheeks there Buddy while Bruce has a Deep Rummage Buddy .
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more bad news.
the hoover is the only thing keeping the taxi game moving at the moment.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/)
DEEP RUMMAGE OFFICERS including a container x-ray scanner, drug dog detection teams, and deep rummage officers.Spread your Cheeks there Buddy while Bruce has a Deep Rummage Buddy .
Someone looking for a reduced sentence.
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more bad news.
the hoover is the only thing keeping the taxi game moving at the moment.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/)
DEEP RUMMAGE OFFICERS including a container x-ray scanner, drug dog detection teams, and deep rummage officers.Spread your Cheeks there Buddy while Bruce has a Deep Rummage Buddy .
Someone looking for a reduced sentence.
"Alri buddy....no problemo,no problemo.....i'm only asking where you're comin from....no need to be aggressive....i've got a job to do aswell!!
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more bad news.
the hoover is the only thing keeping the taxi game moving at the moment.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0218/1197986-garda-cocaine-seizure/)
DEEP RUMMAGE OFFICERS including a container x-ray scanner, drug dog detection teams, and deep rummage officers.Spread your Cheeks there Buddy while Bruce has a Deep Rummage Buddy .
Someone looking for a reduced sentence.
"Alri buddy....no problemo,no problemo.....i'm only asking where you're comin from....no need to be aggressive....i've got a job to do aswell!!
A Brucie bonus.
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He's comedy gold is our Bruce....comprende!!
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He's comedy gold is our Bruce....comprende!!
"I trained in martial arts,I know what a sword looks like buddy".. rofl
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He's comedy gold is our Bruce....comprende!!
"I trained in martial arts,I know what a sword looks like buddy".. rofl
I used to knock around with Geraldine Heller from Beaumont, and Bruce had to be related. Not too may around with that Germanic moniker.
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"Yore Honnohour I arriveded into Dubbblin Aeroport and Mr Bruce called me Amego so I thinked that I was still in Kolombia so I tell Mr Bruce I had Kokkkkkain in my bottom Hole .Your Honnnnnor it was ennnntrappment he no speak the English to me so I do no no now that I am In Ireland breaking the Law ."
Officer what you got to say ?
Well Justice im pushing out the Esperanto to the Amigos unless their wearing tracksuits or their birds are covered in cheap paint on tan and dyed blond on the way back from Ibiza then I use the Bubby greeting as I find it brings me into their Orbit and they know that I know its tactics your Justiceship .The way I see it Justice is there is You me and the Gards minding the gaff from these bad Hombraes .
Judge asks is there anybody in court from Ballymun or Clondalkin to act as interpreter for this officer .
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I can imagine how Gardai were alerted, having read that it takes ELEVEN days for fresh fruit to arrive in Ireland.
I'd say the smugglers are going Bananas. 8)
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"Yore Honnohour I arriveded into Dubbblin Aeroport and Mr Bruce called me Amego so I thinked that I was still in Kolombia so I tell Mr Bruce I had Kokkkkkain in my bottom Hole .Your Honnnnnor it was ennnntrappment he no speak the English to me so I do no no now that I am In Ireland breaking the Law ."
Officer what you got to say ?
Well Justice im pushing out the Esperanto to the Amigos unless their wearing tracksuits or their birds are covered in cheap paint on tan and dyed blond on the way back from Ibiza then I use the Bubby greeting as I find it brings me into their Orbit and they know that I know its tactics your Justiceship .The way I see it Justice is there is You me and the Gards minding the gaff from these bad Hombraes .
Judge asks is there anybody in court from Ballymun or Clondalkin to act as interpreter for this officer .
rofl
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Classic headline:
https://www.thesun.ie/news/6588032/ringaskiddy-cork-cocaine-seizure-kinahan-cartel/ (https://www.thesun.ie/news/6588032/ringaskiddy-cork-cocaine-seizure-kinahan-cartel/)
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how come they can't name this Mr Big character but they can say Daniel is Pablo Escobar incarnate with no proof.
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The courts have said that the Kinahans are an organised crime group or something like that. It's official so the newspapers etc can say it too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kinahan
[Daniel Kinahan] has been named by the High Court of Ireland as a senior figure in organised crime on a global scale.[2][3][4][5] The Criminal Assets Bureau has stated he "controlled and managed" the operations of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group (commonly referred to by the media as the Kinahan Cartel), a criminal organisation which smuggles drugs and firearms into Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe and "has associations that facilitate international criminal activity in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America".
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ah fair play.
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Someone slipped up:
Cocaine 'worth £184m' found in banana boxes sent from Colombia
By Tom Symonds
Home Affairs correspondent
19 February 2021 London
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Video captionArmed police can be seen breaking down a door and making arrests
Cocaine weighing 2,300kg and with an estimated value of £184m has been found inside a consignment of bananas that arrived in the UK from Colombia.
The haul of cocaine was intercepted in Portsmouth and the drugs were removed, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
The pallets were then loaded with dummy packages and delivered to Tottenham Industrial Estate in north London.
Ten people were arrested over the haul, which represents one of the UK's biggest ever drugs seizures.
The NCA said three people had been charged.
The raid was a joint operation between the NCA and the Met Police and was the culmination of a week-long investigation, following intelligence received by detectives.
Image copyrightNCADrug seizure
Image captionThe consignment is equivalent to more than half the quantity of cocaine seized in an average year
Officers tracked the shipment of drugs on 41 pallets as it arrived in Portsmouth, where UK Border Force officers removed the cocaine.
The pallets were then delivered to Tottenham. Police moved in once enough evidence had been gathered from a surveillance operation at the site.
Body-worn footage showed armed officers breaking into storage units where the drugs had been due to be delivered.
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'Five million drug deals'
The Met's Det Supt Simon Moring believes officers have cost organised criminals more than £100m in profits.
He said: "By the time that's divided down into deals we could be talking about five million drug deals.
"That's five million deals taken off the streets of the UK - that will have a profound effect on the price in the UK and the criminals involved."
John Coles, head of specialist operations at the NCA, said: "Illegal drugs are a corrosive threat and those who deal in cocaine are often violent and exploitative.
"Cocaine supply is directly linked to the use of firearms, knife crime and the exploitation of young and vulnerable people."
The consignment is equivalent to more than half the quantity of cocaine seized in an average year.
About 4,200kg of the drug was intercepted in the year to March 2020 .
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"Buddy I'm a customs officer,don't take that attitude with me"...
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"Buddy I'm a customs officer,don't take that attitude with me"...
Wonder why he's humpy?
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"Buddy I'm a customs officer,don't take that attitude with me"...
Wonder why he's humpy?
Wants to be known as a brick hard customs officer.... ::) ::) ::)
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he's dangerous that fella.
he should be grillin feargal sharkeys in a taxi not in a uniform up in the airport.
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he's dangerous that fella.
he should be grillin feargal sharkeys in a taxi not in a uniform up in the airport.
My alcoholic brother's drinking partner is a custom officer.
A bit like Hank from Breaking Bad! 8)
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Bananas like these don't grow on trees...
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Bananas like these don't grow on trees...
They did the search in Cork fearing the lorry driver would give them the slip! 8)