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52-year-old 'conduit' jailed for role in €1.4m Kinahan drugs and ammo operation

Date
2023-05-19

Stage
Sentence

Primary locality
Dublin

County
Dublin

Summary

Anthony Glynn, a 52‑year‑old Dublin man, was sentenced by the Special Criminal Court to six years' imprisonment for his role in a large Kinahan Cartel drugs and ammunition operation. Glynn pleaded guilty to possessing €1.4 million in drugs—cocaine and cannabis—and 335 rounds of ammunition, including .44 Remington Magnum, .357 Magnum, .45 ACP and .22 LR rounds, between 25 January 2017 and 12 April 2017. The court described him as a "conduit" who passed information between Douglas Glynn and Emmet Fogarty. The judge imposed a six‑year term with the final year suspended for three years, and ordered a Section 26 monitoring order for the same period. Glynn had no prior convictions and had worked as a porter at Mater Hospital before the offence. The sentence was intended to encourage him to abandon criminal activity.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: 52-year-old 'conduit' jailed for role in €1.4m Kinahan drugs and ammo operation. Charges or matters: having hundreds of rounds of various ammunition and €1.4 million in drugs for the Kinahans; committing a serious offence for the benefit of a criminal organisation by possessing ammunition, to wit 199 rounds of .44 Remington Magnum calibre, 76 rounds of .357 Magnum calibre, 38 rounds of .45 ACP calibre and 22 rounds of .22 LR calibre ammunition, – 335 rounds in total – in circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable inference that the said ammunition was not required for a lawful purpose on the same dates. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

January 25, 2017 Incident
April 12, 2017 Incident
March 2017 Incident
November 2018 Incident
April 2017 Incident
February 2021 Hearing Or Sentence
February 2022 Other
2023-05-19 Publication

Case subjects

Anthony Glynn

Convicted Person

Charges: having hundreds of rounds of various ammunition and €1.4 million in drugs for the Kinahans; committing a serious offence for the benefit of a criminal organisation by possessing ammunition, to wit 199 rounds of .44 Remington Magnum calibre, 76 rounds of .357 Magnum calibre, 38 rounds of .45 ACP calibre and 22 rounds of .22 LR calibre ammunition, – 335 rounds in total – in circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable inference that the said ammunition was not required for a lawful purpose on the same dates (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: In March, Douglas Glynn (38) last of Fitzgibbon Court, Dublin 1, was sentenced to eight years for conspiracy to commit a serious offence, namely the possession of 335 rounds of ammunition and conspiracy to possess drugs. Douglas Glynn is also serving a 6.5-year jail sentence imposed in February 2022 for his involvement in a foiled plot to murder Kinahan cartel target James 'Mago' Gately, during which Glynn placed a tracker on the rival Hutch member's car.

Douglas Glynn

Convicted Person