Declan Brennan
A Californian gambling addict caught trying to smuggle nearly €300,000 worth of drugs through Dublin Airport has been jailed for four years.
Jacob Napolitano (28) had arrived in Ireland on an Aer Lingus flight from Los Angeles last May when a customs officer became suspicious of his behaviour.
The officer questioned him and then put his bags through an X-ray machine, which revealed a number of suspicious-looking packages.
Multiple vacuum-packed packages containing cannabis were found with a total weight of just over 17 kilos.
Garda Aine McQuinlan told the court that the estimated street value of the drugs was €288,842.
Napolitano, of Acacia Lane, Lunga Hill, California, came forward on signed pleas from the District Court…