€204,000 Cannabis Seized, Two Arrests, Joint GNDOCB and Revenue Operation, 21st and 22nd April 2023

Issue Date: 21 April 2023

On Thursday, 20th April and Friday, 21st April 2023, as part of an intelligence led operation targeting persons suspected to be involved in an organised crime operating in the Dublin and Western Regions, joint operations were conducted by personnel attached to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) and Revenue Customs Service with asssistance from Roscommon Divisional Drugs Unit and the Tallaght District Drugs Unit. During the course of these operations controlled drugs with an estimated street value of €204,000 were seized by Revenue Officers.

On Friday, 21st April during the course of this operation Revenue officers seized approximately 5.74 kilograms of herbal cannabis with an estimated value of €114,800. Gardaí in Tallaght arrested one male (aged in his 30s) who is currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at a Garda Station in South Dublin.

In a separate operation in Roscommon on Thursday, 20th April, Revenue officers seized approximately 4.5 kilograms of herbal cannabis with an estimated value of €90,000. Gardaí in Roscommon arrested one male (aged in his 30s) who was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at a Garda Station in Co. Roscommon. This male was subsequently charged and brought before Castlerea District Court on Friday, 21st April 2023