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Former garda sentenced over cannabis plants
A FORMER GARDA SERGEANT has received a three-year suspended sentence for growing cannabis at his home in Co Louth. Finbar Hickey, 51, of Muchgrange, Greenore, Co Louth, pleaded guilty to cultivating the plants without a licence, RTÉ reports. Over 70 plants and a quantity of drying cannabis leaves were found at Hickey’s home. The court heard Hickey cooperated with the investigation and had told gardaí it was intended for use by him and his wife.
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