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Two Dublin gunmen from the Kinahan organized crime group have been jailed in separate cases at the Special Criminal Court.
Trevor Byrne, 40, of Cappagh Road in Finglas, who previously pointed a gun at Gardaí, was sent to prison for nine years, while Bernard Fogarty, 32, of Hole in the Wall Road in Donaghmede, was jailed. for five years.
The court ruled that Fogarty is “heavily involved in organized crime.”
Judge Tony Hunt said the court cannot ignore the harm caused by gun crime.
The head of An Garda Síochana’s Office of Drugs and Organized Crime, Detective Superintendent Angela Willis, said the convictions will keep individuals and communities safe.
Byrne was captured with a loaded 9mm Luger and a magazine, gloves, shoulder strap, and balaclava. More than € 3,000 were also found in his pocket.
Gardaí believes he was preparing to shoot a major rival criminal from Dublin.
He refused to comply with gardaí when he was found sitting on a couch over the gun in a ‘Seomra’ room at the back of a house in Clondalkin in November last year and had to be arrested at gunpoint.
Byrne has forty prior convictions, including armed robbery and pointing a gun at Gardaí, and was arrested and questioned in the 2016 Eddie Hutch murder of Eddie Hutch, the brother of rival Hutch gang leader Gerard Hutch.
Today he was imprisoned for 9 years
Fogarty admitted possession of a RAK Gardaí machine gun found in the passenger footwell of a car stopped in Shankill last March.
The court ruled that Fogarty is “heavily involved in organized crime.”
He also has forty prior convictions and has ties to the Kinahan gang and the ongoing criminal dispute in Coolock that has so far cost five lives.
He was jailed today for 5 years.
Both men were linked to the weapons by DNA.
Judge Tony Hunt said the court cannot ignore the harm caused by firearm crimes.
The head of An Garda Síochana’s Office of Drugs and Organized Crime, Detective Superintendent Angela Willis, said the convictions will keep individuals and communities safe.
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