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Drugs Seizure & Arrests Friday 9th June 2017 €200,000 Cannabis Plants Seized

Drugs Seizure & Arrests Friday 9th June 2017 €200,000 Cannabis Plants Seized

Gardaí have arrested four men following a seizure of an estimated €200,000 of cannabis plants (pending analysis).

As part of an intelligence led investigation into the sale and supply of drugs in the Castlebar, Nenagh and Dundalk areas, the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, the Special Crime Task Force and local Drugs units carried out a number of searches yesterday, Friday 9th June 2017.

During the course of these searches a cannabis grow house with discovered. 

Four men (29yrs, 37yrs, 38yrs and 45yrs) have been arrested in connection with this investigation and are currently detained at various Garda Stations under Section 4- Criminal Justice Act 1984.      

A photograph is available on request pressoffice@garda.ie