Ireland Crime

Named as

Convicted

Born

Between May 1991 and May 1992, from the ages reported

Offences

Possession of drugs for sale or supply and money laundering

Where

Co. Limerick

Reporting

1 report, 9 May 2025 to 9 May 2025

Outlets

limerickpost.ie

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• Man jailed for nine years over drugs for Limerick crime gang Possession of drugs for sale or supply and money laundering · Co. Limerick

  Ian Hopkins, a 33-year-old man, stored and sold drugs for an organised crime gang in Limerick and laundered the gang's drug money. Gardaí stopped him driving a Mercedes on 12 December 2020 and found €24,810 in cash and €3,352 worth of cannabis on him, and a follow-up search of an apartment he was using at Bloomfield, Annacotty found over €16,600 worth of cannabis. In December 2021 he was found bleeding heavily in an apartment in Limerick City after two masked men attempted to break in, and he later admitted a number of drug and money-laundering charges at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, where the judge said a mandatory 10-year minimum would be unjust. As reported on 9 May 2025, he was jailed for nine years and is being held under 23-hour protective lockdown in his prison cell.

  Sentenced, 9 May 2025Convicted · 1 report

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1. 9 May2025
   Sentencedlimerickpost.ie, in Man jailed for nine years over drugs for Limerick crime gang

   ‘Drug mule’ for Limerick crime gang jailed for nine years

   convicted, Ian Hopkins, 33, male, named, irish (judged from name)Ian Hopkins♂33IE

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