Crime gang using pensioners and vulnerable people to move drugs in bid to fly under radar

69-year-old OAP Eamon Larkin jailed after being caught with €420,000 of cocaine

Ken Foy

A criminal network with links to Dublin’s so-called Monkey Gang is using vulnerable adults to move money and drugs because they attract less suspicion.

A 69-year-old pensioner was jailed last week after being caught with €420,000 of cocaine in the boot of a car he was driving. He is one of up to a dozen vulnerable runners for the criminal network, it has emerged.