A convicted drug dealer was caught selling cannabis and prescription pills to another defendant during his own sentencing hearing.
Tony Roe, 30, was in Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice on April 15, 2024, when he passed drugs to a man also in custody in the same courtroom.
He handed over alprazolam tablets worth €160 (around $188 USD) along with some cannabis, all while waiting to be sentenced, according to Irish media.
Roe has 124 prior convictions, including 29 for drug dealing. That day, he was being sentenced to three years for attempted robbery.
Despite being caught dealing inside the courtroom, Judge Treasa Kelly gave him just a three-month sentence for the incident. It will run alongside his current sentence, so he won’t serve any extra time.
The judge noted Roe is already behind bars until October 2025. His lawyer said he pleaded guilty early.
Roe’s life of convictions mimics that of viral Kentucky convict James Farthing who won a $167.3 million Powerball jackpot before being arrested again shortly thereafter.
Absurd court behavior has been a bit of a trend so far in 2025. Earlier this year, a man attempted to use Artificial Intelligence in the New York State Supreme Court through an AI avatar, but that quickly went awry when a judge yelled across the courtroom to pull the plug.
In another instance, a man’s decision to wear a “World’s Best Farter” shirt to court resulted in the judge lashing out at his choice of attire.
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