Issue Date: 20th September 2021
Gardaí have seized €45,000 worth of suspected cocaine and arrested a juvenile following a search in Ballinasloe, Co Galway under Operation Tara on Sunday September 19, 2021.
Gardaí attached to Ballinasloe Garda Station conducted an intelligence led operation in the Dunlo Harbour area of Ballinasloe Town on Sunday.
During the course of this operation a quantity of suspected cocaine, estimated to be worth €45,000 concealed on derelict grounds was seized.
A male in his mid-teens was arrested at the scene and detained at Ballinasloe Garda Station on Sunday. He has since been released with a file being prepared for the Garda Youth Diversion Office.
This seizure forms part of Operation Tara an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy, which was launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris on July 2, 2021. The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks, at all levels - international, national, local - involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale and supply of controlled drugs.
