A trusted manager for the Kinahan cartel who oversaw the “industrial-scale” storage of drugs worth €1.4million and the distribution of ammunition was jailed yesterday for eight years.
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”.
He told the Special Criminal Court how society was now “entitled to a long period of silence from Glynn”, who is serving a six-and-a-half year term imposed by the same court for his involvement in a foiled Kinahan cartel plot to murder James “Mago” Gately.
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On that occasion, it was heard the 38-year-old used the moniker “Oscar” during his involvement in the hit bid. The court also heard that a breakthrough in encryption-cracking tech led gardai to Glynn via recovered phone messages.
These revealed how gang members panicked about the size of boxes in the operation and they used code words such as a “slate of pollen” for cannabis resin, “tools” for firearms, “seeds” for ammunition and “candy”, which referred to €108,000 in cash.
Mr Justice Hunt said the father-of-three was a “trusted manager” for a “high-level criminal organisation” and responsible for the “day-to-day running of the warehouse”.
Mr Justice Hunt said Glynn was involved in the “industrial-scale” storage of drugs and of the distribution of ammunition to “protect profits” of the cartel.
Yesterday, the judge fixed a headline sentence of 12 years for the drugs conspiracy charge but discounted three years for the early guilty plea.
In light of a positive governor’s report and to encourage rehabilitation, he said the final year of the sentence would be suspended for four years
He also sentenced Glynn, last of Fitzgibbon Court, Dublin, to four years’ imprisonment on the ammunition conspiracy charge to run concurrently with the drugs charge.
Mr Justice Hunt said Glynn was facing consequences of his involvement “through free choice” with “a dangerous and destructive criminal organisation”.
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