A trusted manager for the Kinahan cartel who oversaw the "industrial scale" storage of drugs worth €1.4m and the distribution of ammunition has today been jailed for eight years by the Special Criminal Court.
In passing sentence, Mr Justice Tony Hunt said the case of Douglas "Oscar" Glynn was a good example of how higher level members of the criminal organisation use "coal-face" operatives as "cannon fodder".
Mr Justice Hunt said society was now "entitled to a long period of silence from Mr Glynn", who is already serving a 6.5-year jail sentence imposed by the same court for his involvement in a foiled Kinahan Cartel plot to murder James 'Mago' Gately. On that occasion, the court heard how Glynn used the moniker "Oscar" during his involvement in the failed murder bid.
The court heard that a breakthrough in encryption-cracking technology led gardaí to Glynn via recovered phone messages that revealed how gang members panicked about the size of boxes used in the operation and how they used code words such as a 'slate of pollen' for cannabis resin, 'tools' for firearms, 'seeds' for ammunition and 'candy', which referred to €108k in cash.
