Jonathan Vieira jailed for two years over cocaine importation

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Jonathan Vieira was jailed for two years after admitting to importing cocaine into Ireland at Dublin Airport on March 16, 2025. He had swallowed 90 pellets and passed 71 while in garda custody; the cocaine was valued at €48,825. The sentence was backdated to his first day in custody.

The court heard Vieira told gardaí he had borrowed the equivalent of €2,000 from a debt collector to buy a vehicle for his Uber work in Brazil, and was pressured to transport the drugs when he could not repay the loan. Judge Martin Nolan accepted he was under pressure and described the offence as a crime of desperation; he considered Vieira unlikely to reoffend.