Two men arrested as €560,000 worth of cocaine seized in Limerick raids
by Ruairi Scott Byrne · Irish MirrorTwo men have been arrested after gardaí seized €560,000 of drugs during searches at a number of locations in Co Limerick.
On Friday, Gardaí stopped and searched a vehicle, during the course of which €490,000 worth of suspected cocaine was seized.
During a separate search, under warrant, of a property in Limerick city suspected cocaine with an estimated value of €70,000 was seized.
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The drugs seized will now undergo further analysis by Forensic Science Ireland.
Two men, aged in their 40s and 60s, were arrested and are currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 in a Garda station in the Limerick area.
Gardai say that investigations are ongoing.
This seizure forms part of Operation Tara, an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in July 2021.
The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute drug trafficking networks at all levels—international, national, and local—involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale, and supply of controlled drugs.
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