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Man (40s) arrested after €150,000 worth of cannabis herb and plants seized in Galway
The man is due to appear before Galway District Court this morning.
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The man is due to appear before Galway District Court this morning.
The man is being held in west Dublin.
The cigarettes were found with the assistance of detector dog Waffle.
The contraband represents 80 to 100 slaughtered elephants.
The drugs were found during a search of a vehicle yesterday.
The seizures were made following search operations in counties Kildare and Meath yesterday.
The drugs were seized during a search of a house in the Knocknacarra area of Galway yesterday.
€11,000 in cash was also seized during the searches, which were carried out as part of Operation Tara.
A number of search warrants were executed on Monday.
The seizure was made after gardaí stopped and searched a vehicle on the Clonmacken Road in Limerick yesterday.
Italian financial police have seized the superyacht Lena belonging to Gennady Timchenko, an oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, in the port of San Remo.
The cigarettes were discovered inside a Dutch registered truck that had disembarked a ferry from Cherbourg, France.
All suspects are currently detained at various garda stations within the Dublin Metropolitan Region.
The drugs were seized yesterday during the search of a vehicle.
The seizure was made after Gardaí stopped and searched a vehicle on the Carrickmacross Road.
Drug seizures have rocketed this year in Rotterdam harbour.
This seizure is part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting the importation of illegal drugs.
The drugs were seized following the search of a house in Monaghan on Monday.
A number of mobile phones and other drug paraphernalia were seized at the scene.
The raid is linked to a similar seizure in west Dublin earlier this year.
The search was carried out in the west Clare region this morning.
The drugs were seized in the Dublin 1 area on Monday night.
He is due to appear before Macroom District Court on Wednesday 17 November.
Both men are detained pursuant to Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
More than €60,000 worth of Alprazolam tablets were seized.
The seizures were made today as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation.
Herbal cannabis, khat, amphetamine and methamphetamine were among drugs seized.
A number of searches were conducted under warrant at suspected cannabis growhouses this morning.
The tobacco was discovered in a container that had arrived on a vessel from Rotterdam.
12 locations were searched in Co Longford this morning.
The consignment had originated in Bulgaria.
Criminals were attempting to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine into Ireland.
A man in his 20s has been arrested.
The drugs were seized when a truck arriving from mainland Europe was intercepted and searched.
€494,000 worth of drugs and €22,450 in cash were seized from Newbridge, Co Kildare.
The search was carried out at 3.30pm today by the Roscommon and Longford Divisional Drugs Unit.
The searches were carried out in Dublin, Louth, Meath and Wexford this morning.