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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
in the morning and turn it off at 10 p.m.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And while the phone was on, he was working for him.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
Well, the target of the Criminal Assets Bureau case was Gary Ward, who is described as the leader of this particular organized crime group as the terminology they always use.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And his wife, Debbie, she wasn't involved in the crime, but was aware of where the money was coming from and benefited from, I suppose, her partner's work as a drug dealer.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
Are they in Galway City now or where?
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
The Galway City, Newcastle area where he grew up and spent most of his life, he never had a job.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
There was some evidence that he might have recently started work as a courier, but there was no returns of revenue or anything like that.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
So as far as they could see, he never had any kind of real legitimate income, never held a job.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And he was kind of seen as the leading light in this group.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
It was basically called, it was a family group.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And two of his brothers, Declan and Michael, were also named as being leading figures in this.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And they basically were one of, I suppose, the most significant, as the word used, suppliers of heroin and cocaine in Galway City County, and then some parts of Mayo and Leitrim as well.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
So they had quite a business going, yeah.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And what sort of age group are they, the brothers?
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
As they say, when you don't know the answer straight away, that's a good question.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
Sorry, I think Gary is 37 off the top of my head.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
Declan is younger and Michael is the older brother.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
But it was Gary, I suppose, he was considered the leading light, you know, directing operations.
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
And, you know, he was...
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Episode 1335: The three Ward brothers exposed by CAB as major drug traffickers
Like, he's the main man.