Issue Date: 12 August 2023
Gardaí have seized €60,000 worth of drugs and arrested one man as part of a mobile patrol in Dublin City centre on the evening of Thursday 10th August, 2023.
Gardaí attached to the Dublin Crime Response Team (DCRT) stopped a man on an E-bike on Talbot Street, Dublin 1. Upon searching the man, Gardaí seized suspected drugs with an estimated street value of €5,000. A follow up search was conducted at a residential property and Gardaí seized a further €55,000 of suspected drugs. A combination of cocaine, cannabis herb, cannabis resin, diamorphine, MDMA, Xanax, LSD and ketamine were seized.
The drugs are now subject to analysis by Forensic Science Ireland (FSI).
A man (aged in his 20s) was arrested as part of this investigation. He was detained at a Garda Station in the city centre under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.
The man has since been charged and is due to appear before Criminal Courts of Justice, Court Number 2 this morning Saturday 12th August, 2023 at 10.30a.m.
Investigations ongoing.
