Gardaí have seized a quantity of the synthetic mood-altering drug BZP in Rathmines, Dublin, during an operation targeting the drug's sale and supply.
On Sunday, members of the organised crime unit stopped and searched a car on Grove Road.
A suitcase containing some 150,000 BZP tablets was recovered and the male driver (25) was arrested.
According to gardaí, a flat in Rathmines was then searched and more BZP tablets were recovered. The second seizure led to two further arrests of two men aged 20 and 21.
The value of these seizures is more than €700,000, pending analysis.
BZP, once promoted as a legal alternative to ecstasy and amphetamines, was banned in March this year.
All three men were detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act at Terenure and Rathmines Garda stations.
The car driver appeared before Dublin District Court this morning and was remanded in custody to appear before Cloverhill District Court on November 23rd.
One of the other men was released from custody yesterday morning without charge. The third man remains in custody.