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Gardai has besieged cocaine and illegal prescription drugs valued at more than € 1 million and also discovered more than € 500,000 in cash in vacuum-packed bales during a major coordinated operation in four counties.
Vehicles were also seized along with encrypted mobile phones and devices that block signals for mobile communication.
Three suspects, two men and one woman, were arrested in Drogheda, Co Louth, Monday night after a surveillance operation against an active drug gang in the northeast.
Several follow-up Garda searches were quickly conducted at various properties in Meath, Dublin and Wexford counties with the total drug seizure valued at € 1.1 million and € 550,000 in cash seized to date.
Detectives from the Garda National Office of Drugs and Organized Crime (GNDOCB), led by the Chief of Det. Angela Willis, had a number of suspects under surveillance in the Donore Rd and North Rd areas of Drogheda around 6pm before detaining the suspects while traveling. Various vehicles.
Two men, 50 and 39, and a 43-year-old woman were arrested during the operation in Drogheda on suspicion of “improving the ability of an organized crime gang to commit a serious crime.”
More than € 500,000 in cash in vacuum-packed bales during a major coordinated operation in four counties.
They were detained by interrogating in Dublin under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act, which allows suspects to be interrogated for up to seven days without charges for gang-related offenses.
Several follow-up searches were conducted in Meath, Dublin, Louth and Wexford counties, where cash and drugs were found.
Gardaí also confiscated three vehicles along with six expensive watches, two encrypted communication devices, and two signal interference devices.
Police Chief Supt Willis said the operation was an example of Garda’s determination to continue his search for organized crime gangs despite the Covid crisis19 and the major police operation related to the public health crisis.
Gardaí believes the three people arrested in Drogheda are linked to a gang in the worsening of the gang dispute in the city of Co Louth and the seizure of drugs and cash as a result of the gang’s investigation by Garda. over a period of years.
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