This morning, Wednesday 19th September 2018 personnel attached to the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) supported by the Special Crime Task Force (SCTF) and personnel within DMR North Central division carried out a total of seven searches of premises in Dublin city centre, for the purpose of targeting criminality associated with organised crime.
One male, aged twenty-four, has been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking following the seizing of a quantity of heroin and is currently detained pursuant to drug trafficking legislation, at the Bridewell Garda Station.
A number of encrypted communications devises have been seized in the course of the seven searches.
Assistant Commissioner, John O’Driscoll, who heads Special Crime Operations (SCO) said "the searches undertaken this morning represent further evidence of the Garda Siochána’s unrelenting efforts to dismantle organised crime groups (OCGs) that are involved in drug trafficking and a wide range of other criminality and who are attempting to murder particular people”.
