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"A man who converted a rented house into a cannabis growing factory has been given a suspended sentence on condition that he leave the country immediately.



Vietnamese national Thang Nguyen (32),with an address at Swords Road, Santry has been on remand in prison pending sentence for the last 11 months after a warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear at a previous court hearing.

“We have enough of our home grown criminals,” Judge Frank O’Donnell commented when he sentenced Nguyen for what he described as “a very sophisticated offence”.

He suspended the balance of the sentence on the condition that Nguyen be deported or leave Ireland voluntarily and not return for 10 years.

Nguyen pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to cultivation of cannabis without a license at the house on Claude Road, Drumcondra on June 6th, 2007. He had no previous convictions.

Garda Peter Breen told the court the second floor in the house and the attic had been converted into a “cultivation factory” for the growing of cannabis. He said when the house was first rented there were two bedrooms on the first floor and an attic bedroom.

Gardai searched the house in June 2007 following confidential information and a found a plastic sheet draped across the entire width of the staircase. A small bathroom had been used as a pumping station to irrigate the mature plants on the first floor and the young plants, in what was effectively a nursery, in the attic.

Garda Breen said that the electricity meter had been elaborately “by-passed” to provide 14.4 Kilowatts of electricity to the filtration, heating and lighting systems that had been used to cultivate the cannabis while the downstairs in the house was
using electricity as normal from the grid.

There were 90 mature plants, all over five feet tall, on the first floor and almost as many younger smaller plants in the attic, which Gda Breen said led to “a strong smell of cannabis in the house”.

He said that fertiliser was found in the shed in the back garden, while “pods”, used to grow the cannabis seeds, were found in the kitchen.

Gda Breen said Nguyen was arrested in the house when gardai arrived with the warrant to search the premises."
rest of detail in article below
https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...breaking35.htm

Suspended sentence for cannabis factory
13/07/2009 - 13:03:31
https://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/irel...ry-418515.html

That article kinda makes me sick, here you have a guy who is growing purely for financial gain and is more than likely linked with organised crime.
HE GETS A SUSPENDED SENTANCE????

And then you have the poor home grower who is growing his/her own meds and not putting money into the pockets of the criminals, paying for the electricity and paying vat on anything they buy in the grow shop.
The little guy gets busted and the courts are only too happy to fine them...just goes to show what a joke the courts system is in this tin pot country.

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Originally Posted by Cookie monster

That article kinda makes me sick, here you have a guy who is growing purely for financial gain and is more than likely linked with organised crime.
HE GETS A SUSPENDED SENTANCE????

And then you have the poor home grower who is growing his/her own meds and not putting money into the pockets of the criminals, paying for the electricity and paying vat on anything they buy in the grow shop.
The little guy gets busted and the courts are only too happy to fine them...just goes to show what a joke the courts system is in this tin pot country.

and no real punishment for stealing electrify.

Look like they are sending a message come to Ireland grow weed ,steal electrify and if you are caught all that will happen is you will be deported.

Certainly looks that way belfast.

God forbid i'm ever raided i'm gonna grab the rasta wig and put on a thick jamacian accent....could do with a good holiday to escape all this rain

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Originally Posted by Cookie monster

Certainly looks that way belfast.

God forbid i'm ever raided i'm gonna grab the rasta wig and put on a thick jamacian accent....could do with a good holiday to escape all this rain

Being deported to Jamaican might not be all bad.

[G-ice]

That is crazy. I totally agree. These plants were going to be taken directly into the black market and were only for profit. A slap on the wrist just isn't enough.

[drpressure600]

. . fuck it man, you don't wanna see growers getting locked up . . free the weed . .

[anc0]

yea tbh i really dont like that whole attitude, no one should get trouble for growin, locals,imigrants illegal or not, and fuck the power companys steal if you want, although prob not the most sensible option! and who cares where the weed goes? if people are growing for profit so what, is evry coffeshop owner in holland an 'evil dealer'?
just dont really agree with that outlook!

hello btw just found the forum through *****!
take it easy

Not that i agree with cultivating cannabis just for sheer profit...but as far as i know its NOT the chinese or vietnamese that are making grit/glass weed, so i have to give them respect for at least selling a relatively clean product. Since grit weed hit the uk i have to say these days i respect ANYBODY who isnt contaminating what they sell, by removing factories that produce "clean" weed it creates a gap in the market for utter scumbags to flood the market with contaminated grit/glass weed, just look at what happened back in 2006 a fukin disgrace i smoked some grit weed at the time without realising at first and im furious about that ..., anyone who accidentally smoked that grit weed will be emphysemic with silicosis in ten years time because of what happened in 06' THE FUCKIN BASTARDS!!!! WISH I KNEW WHO WAS BEHIND THAT GRIT WEED...

[jgaf]

Heard the Vietnamese are spraying it with sugared water before drying to increase weight, could be bollox tho.