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Kamil Scibior and spouse Edyta had cocaine, cannabis and meth stash in home & business
Kamil Scibior (42) gave our photographer the finger as we pictured him standing outside Carlow Circuit Court with his wife Edyta Scibior (37) – the owner of Home of Shellac in Carlow town – ahead of their sentencing in connection with the massive haul.
Kamil, who received a six-year jail sentence, and glam mum-of one Edyta, who received a suspended four-and-half-year sentence, were identified by gardaí following a February 2023 operation targeting the sale and supply of cocaine in the Carlow district.
Giving evidence before Eugene O’Kelly on Friday, Det Garda Ian Roche of Carlow Garda station, led by prosecutor Niall Storan, confirmed he had applied for a search warrant for the couple’s home at Crossneen Manor, Graiguecullen on February 22nd 2003.
He agreed the basis for the application was information gathered during a months’ long operation.
As a result of inquiries, surveillance and intelligence, Kamil Scibior was identified as a man involved at a ‘high level’ in the sale and supply of the drug,” he said, adding gardaí believed cocaine was being stored at the house in Crossneen Manor for sale and supply.
He confirmed that a search was carried out at Crossneen Manor followed up by a search of Edyta Scibior’s business premises ‘House of Shellac’ on Dublin St Carlow.
He said drugs valued at €229,204.65 were seized during the two searched including cannabis valued at just over €58,000, methamphetamine valued at €50,000 and cocaine valued at just over €90,000.
The drugs found in the house were found in a downstairs utility room/toilet while the drugs at House of Shellac were in a locked storeroom.
Kamil Scibior was arraigned, the court heard, on July 22nd 2024 and pleaded guilty to possession of all the drugs for sale and supply at both premises under section 15a of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
Edyta Scibior pleaded guilty to two section 15 drug offences in relation to the drugs found at the two premises.
Det Gda Roche agreed it was during the follow up search at House of Shellac that he became aware that Kamil Scibior had presented himself at the public desk of Carlow Garda station.
He said Kamil was cautioned and arrested.
During interviews, Edyta Scibior told gardai she had been living in Ireland for 16 years and had set up her own salon four years earlier.
She said she lived at Crossneen Manor with Kamil, her 12-year-old son and his 12-year-old son from a previous relationship who resided with them on a week on week off basis.
She said both she and her husband were originally from Poland and confirmed she employed four women at the salon at a rate of €12 an hour but these women did not have access to the storeroom.
When she was asked about the drugs found at her home and business, she told gardai: “I know nothing about that. Do you honestly believe I knew about that? You know me. I bring kids to school, I knew nothing about these drugs.”
In his interviews, Kamil Scibior did make admissions, the court was told.
Asked by gardai what he thought had been found, he responded: “Plenty of stuff, probably drugs!”
He claimed to gardai he had met a man on the street who handed him two boxes, one of which he brought home and one which he left at the business.
He claimed he didn’t know the boxes contained drugs saying: “I don’t sell drugs.”
Asked who the man was, Kamil responded that he had never seen the man before and didn’t know who he was.
He said he had only become aware he was holding illegal drugs the day before when he got the ‘smell of weed.’
Asked whether Kamil had taken full responsibility for the presence of the drugs, Det Gda Roche said he had.
He also told gardai he doesn’t sell drugs and his wife didn’t know anything about it.
The court heard Kamil had two previous convictions for no insurance and failure to produce a driving licence.
Edyta Scibior also had two previous convictions for motoring-related offences.
Det Garda Roche agreed with Kamil Scibior’s barrister David Bulbulia that his client’s first contact with gardaí was when he presented himself at Carlow Garda station and took full responsibility for the drugs.
He further agreed Kamil had followed this up with a guilty plea at his arraignment and that he had returned to Ireland and appeared in court each time his case was called despite his bail being varied on two occasions to allow him travel back to Poland.
Asked by Judge O’Kelly to again go over the background for the application for the search warrant, Det Garda Roche said this had occurred “following an ongoing operation as well as enquiries and surveillance lasting a number of months”.
Asked whether he had formed an opinion as to where on a ‘hierarchical space’ in the criminal enterprise Mr Scibior was, Det Gda Roche responded, “very high, Judge.”
Asked about his opinion in relation to Ms Scibior, Det Garda Roche responded: “I believe she was involved as well, Judge.”
Outlining the contents of a probation officer’s report Mr Bulbulia noted his client had taken full responsibility, was deemed at low risk of reoffending and had a good work history having spent the previous 16 years working at a manufacturing plant in Bagnelstown.
He asked the court to depart from the minimum 10-year sentence.
Mr Aidan Doyle BL defending Ms Scibior, said the principal mitigation in his client’s case was her guilty plea and the fact she came before the court with no relevant previous convictions.
He said the probation report reveals a “stubbornness or unwillingness to accept her full involvement in this operation … she now fully understands that by owning two premises where there is a substantial amount of drugs in existence, you are in effect part of a drug operation”.
He noted his client cared for two children, employed six people in her business and is currently developing a beauty product with the aid of the local university that is soon hoped to go on the market.
Handing down a sentence of six years to Kamil Scibior, Judge O’Kelly said he was deviating from the minimum 10-year-sentence as the defendant had no relevant convictions, had travelled to Poland twice and returned, had a good work history and had entered a plea of guilty.
Handing down a headline four-and-half-year sentence to Edyta Scibior, Judge O’Kelly suspended this in its entirely noting she was deemed at low risk of reoffending, the effect jailing her this would have on two 14-year-old children as well as the fact she owns a business that employs six people.
He ordered her to enter a bond to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for a period of four years and six months.
News in 90 Seconds – May 25th 2025
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