A MAN accused of getting an unlicensed firearm is an “essential cog” in an organised crime gang, a courtroom has heard.
Patrick McGinley can also be accused having a slicing agent to be used within the provide of medicine following searches at a property in west Belfast final week.
The 28-year-old appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Courtroom on Saturday by way of videolink from police custody.
Objecting to McGinley being freed on bail, a police officer informed the courtroom it’s believed he's a part of a criminal offense gang supplying class A and B medication within the metropolis.
The officer stated additionally they imagine the weapon discovered, which has but to be examined, is utilized in his alleged each day drug dealing actions.
He added that a number of kilos of a suspected slicing agent had been discovered however whereas McGinley gave a no remark interview he stated afterwards that it was actually grout.
McGinley’s barrister informed the courtroom that the fees are a part of an ongoing investigation into suspected criminality which has already seen him accused of supplying class A and B medication.
He stated that in his first courtroom look on these costs he and a co-accused had been granted bail by one other district decide.
The lawyer stated the weapon discovered was not an actual firearm however of the type generally purchased on the likes of Nutt’s Nook market and it doesn't require a firearm certificates.
He stated the suspected mixing agent was truly grout sealant of the type utilized in lavatory showers.
The lawyer identified that the decide who granted him bail within the first set of costs towards him was glad with a situation that he stay at an deal with in Colinmill in Dunmurry with a money surety of £5,000 lodged.
He added that McGinley was a father-of-one with one other baby on the way in which and runs a profitable landscaping enterprise.
District Choose George Conner refused bail stating there was too excessive a danger to the general public and of interference with the investigation.
McGinley was remanded in custody to look once more on September 9.