Kinahan gang member Douglas Glynn jailed over 'industrial scale' crime warehouse

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.

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.

The judge said Glynn had been a "supervisor" and "frequent and significant contributor" in the operation until it was halted by gardaí. The offence relates to dates between January 25, 2017, and April 12, 2017, both dates inclusive and within the State. Mr Justice Hunt also sentenced Glynn to four years' imprisonment on the ammunition conspiracy charge to run concurrently with the drugs charge with no portion suspended. The sentences are to run from February 20 last, when Glynn entered his first plea.

The detective said surveillance had been put in place after a separate investigation aroused their suspicion about Glynn. A follow-up search to the lock-up carried out at a residential address in Dublin in April 2017 saw gardaí seize Blackberry phones on which a number attributed to Glynn was discovered.

Det Sgt O'Leary said that "candy" referred to €108K in cash being held by the gang. The garda said that Glynn's brother, Anthony, could also be identified as having text messages and a user profile on the phone. Det Sgt O'Leary said Glynn had 17 previous convictions, mostly for road traffic offences, and has one District Court conviction for possession of drugs. However, he said Glynn had a "significant" conviction from when he was sentenced for his role in a foiled murder plot of a Kinahan crime gang target.

Ms Lawlor said her client had been involved in a sports club and had engaged in a drug-treatment programme prior to his incarceration.

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