A person (30s) has been arrested in reference to the seizure of a major amount of cocaine in Co Louth.
he medicine had been found after Gardaí searched a automotive within the Drogheda space yesterday afternoon.
“As a part of Operation Tare, Gardaí hooked up to the Divisional Medicine Unit based mostly at Drogheda Garda Station seized €1.12 million price of cocaine in the middle of an intelligence led operation in Drogheda, Co Louth, on Saturday the twelfth of November,” a garda spokesperson mentioned.
“The medicine had been found when Gardaí searched a automotive within the Tullyallen space of Drogheda shortly after 1pm. A person in his late 30s was arrested on the scene.”
Gardaí mentioned the person is at the moment detained below the provisions of Part 2 of the Prison Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at Drogheda Garda station. He will be held for as much as seven days.
The pressure mentioned the seized medicine can be despatched ahead for evaluation and the investigation is ongoing.
Operation Tara is an enhanced nationwide anti-drugs technique, which was launched in July 2021. Its focus is to “disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks, in any respect ranges – worldwide, nationwide, native – concerned within the importation, distribution, cultivation, manufacturing, native sale and provide of managed medicine”.