Limerick shopkeeper used grocery business as front for cocaine mixing factory

A shopkeeper-drug dealer told gardaí “I’m f***ed now” when they walked in on him in the kitchen of his small grocery shop in Limerick preparing over €208,000 worth of cocaine in mixing bowls.

Surrounded by white powder, weighing scales, a blender and mixing bowls, Declan Sheehy (58) told gardaí the cocaine was his.

The father of four also admitted he owned €58,000 cash found by gardaí in a couch at the shop and at his home, of which €51,000 was deemed by the court to be the proceeds of crime.

Sheehy, of Janemount Park, Corbally, Limerick, who was using his family’s fourth generation grocery shop as a cocaine mixing factory, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years with the final 18 months suspended.

“It’s a shocker that a small business in Limerick city, which was run by the accused’s family for four generations, wound up being a front for the distribution and sale and supply of cocaine,” sentencing judge Tom O’Donnell said.

“This was in an area blighted…

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