John Sheppard and three workers face extra charges over €5.1m cannabis haul

A Dublin construction company director and three workers are facing additional charges after investigators linked them to a consignment of coffee tables allegedly used to conceal cannabis worth €5.1 million. John Sheppard, 61, the company director, is among those charged, alongside company secretary Dermot Hogan, 51, gas fitter Anthony Daly, 43, and Jason Gibbons, 27. The article reports that the four were arrested in connection with the import and have now been hit with extra charges. The cannabis was allegedly hidden among coffee tables shipped into Ireland. The reported value of the seizure puts the case among the major drug-import investigations covered by the source, though the article provides no further detail about the precise charges or the defendants’ responses. Sheppard and the other named men are accused, not described as having been convicted. The additional charges mark a further development in the case, which centres on the alleged use of an ordinary furniture shipment to bring a large quantity of cannabis into the country.