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The Gardaí has arrested a high-ranking member of the Hutch gang blamed by the Kinahan cartel for his active involvement in the Regency Hotel bloodbath in connection with a € 60,000 drug bust.
he 26-year-old gangster from the north of the city was arrested along with a criminal from Coolock after a major surveillance operation by the Gardaí Office of Drugs and Organized Crime.
The cannabis seizure occurred in the Swords area around 10 a.m. Thursday when detectives pounced on an alleged drug delivery in which more than three kilograms of cannabis herb were seized.
Hutch’s gangster and his associate from Coolock were still being questioned last night at various stations in the northern Garda.
High-ranking sources claim that the raid is not linked to an operation carried out by Dundalk Gardaí hours later in which a significant amount of cocaine was seized near the border and a woman was arrested.
In a follow-up operation, several known criminals from the Darndale area were arrested and are being questioned about a supply network from Dublin to criminals in Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, sources say the arrest of mobster Swords of the Hutch this morning is deemed “highly significant.”
“It’s not the biggest loot of weed in the world to be caught, but at the same time it could land you 10 years in jail,” a source said last night.
“And this is a guy who is very used to jail, he is a violent and reckless criminal,” added the source.
Kinahan’s cartel blamed him for being involved in the 2016 Regency Hotel bloodbath, but he has never been arrested for this.
He was a very close associate of Derek Coakley Hutch (27) was shot to death outside Wheatfield Prison on the orders of the Kinahan cartel in January 2018, one of 18 murders related to the deadly enmity between Hutch and Kinahan.
The arrestee is a key member of the gang whose front man is criminal exile Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch and since being released from a jail sentence for robbery, he has been involved in separate disputes in the northern city center.
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