Eimear Rabbitt
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So that obviously happens when you don't appear in court regularly.
to face particular charges.
So what we know is that in May 2008, basically, he's accused of obstructing a Garda search by trying to discard 25 ecstasy tablets from his purse during the search.
So he was charged with that offence, but then he was also charged with
unlawful possession of drugs for sale and supply out of the same offence alleged offence so that he didn't appear in court then in 2009 and I think it was April 2009 so they issued a bench warrant basically for him because he was an offshore court and then that was again issued a bit later on in 2009 when he failed to appear and
on different charges.
So these charges relate to 2007 and they're basically two criminal damage charges that is alleged to have occurred in Kilkenny.
He's from Kilkenny and these offences were before New Ross District Court which is in Wexford.
Yeah, but he seems to have gone to America in 2009.
So it would be, yeah, it was not far off two years, 20 years, sorry.
Yeah, he has.
Yeah.
So he's been so he was arrested.
He seems to live in Massachusetts, which is obviously on the East Coast.
But when he was arrested by ICE officials on his way home from work at that time, he was taken to a center in El Paso in Texas and he's been held there.
So, yeah, he was just describing how, you know, conditions are awful there.
Like, as you said, a modern day concentration camp.
He was saying that, you know, he basically he thought that he would
this would be dealt with by now.
Obviously, he has a lawyer who's represented him as well.