A man in his 40s has been arrested following the seizure of nearly €550,000 worth of cocaine and MDMA from a home in Clondalkin on Friday evening.
Gardaí from the Dublin Metropolitan Regions West unit seized about €424,200 of suspected cocaine and €123,000 of MDMA, with a total street value of about €547,200, from a residence in Clondalkin, Dublin 22 on Friday, March 21st.
A man at the Clondalkin address was arrested after local uniform members and plain clothes gardaí executed a search warrant at about 7.30pm on Friday.
The drugs seized will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.
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The man is his 40s was arrested for an offence contrary to Section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977/84 and is being detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at a Dublin Garda station.
The arrest and seizure were carried out under Operation Tara which was established during the pandemic as a new nationwide drive against drug gangs. The operation aims to “disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug-trafficking networks, at all levels – international, national, local – involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale and supply of controlled drugs”.
