Issue Date: 24th June 2023
Gardaí seized over €24,000 worth of suspected cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy during searches conducted as part of Operation Tara in County Galway on Friday 23rd June 2023.
At approximately 11pm, Gardaí from the Galway Divisional Drug Unit searched a residence in the Oranmore area where suspected cocaine worth €5,400 and suspected cannabis worth €1,000 were located and seized.
During the course of a follow-up search at a business premises in Galway city, Gardaí seized suspected cannabis worth €17,000 along with approximately €1,000 of suspected ecstasy tablets.
All of the seized drugs (totalling €24,400) will now be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.
A man in his late teens and a man in his 40s were arrested as part of this investigation and detained at a Garda station in Galway under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
Both men have since been released without charge and a file is being prepared for the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
