In the course of an ongoing investigation targeting serious organised criminal activity, on 19th - 20th September 2020, personnel attached to the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) assisted by additional personnel assigned to a local drug unit at Blanchardstown Garda Station, undertook searches at a number of locations in West Dublin.
During the course of these searches a quantity of a substance, now confirmed to be cocaine, which has an estimated street sale value of €300,000 was located and seized. A semi-automatic firearm, Grand Power make, and ammunition was also seized.
A male, age 29, has been arrested and is currently detained under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996, at Blanchardstown Garda Station.
Speaking today, Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll said "An Garda Síochána continues to target those who are suspected to be involved in organised and serious crime and to attempt to locate and seize, the drugs they intend to sell within our communities and firearms they possess for the purpose of inflicting harm on others.”
