A 48-hour extension to the detention of 10 suspects sought at Bandon District Court on Monday evening
Chief Supt Vincent O’Sullivan disclosed the move at a special sitting of Bandon District Court on Monday evening when he applied for a 48-hour extension to the detention of 10 suspects being held under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act.
Chief Supt O’Sullivan told the court gardaí needed the extra time to question the 10 suspects on foot of these latest searches which resulted in gardaí obtaining an extra 31 electronic devices, including phones and SIM cards, from which information has to be extracted to put to the suspects. Gardaí have also seized a number of Iridium Satellite phones and have had to contact experts in the United States to obtain assistance in extracting information from them which has delayed their ability to put the information to the suspects at interview, he said.
These include contact and inquiries being made with the PSNI as well as police forces in Scotland, France, Bulgaria and the Netherlands, meaning gardaí require additional time to put the information obtained from these inquiries to the suspects, he said. Chief Supt O’Sullivan confirmed he made no reference to any amount of drugs or any links to any Middle Eastern terror group at the earlier hearing but the judge said that as an avid news reader, he had read the coverage and did not believe it was “saturation coverage”.
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