GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the murder of gang leader Eamon Dunne have arrested three people and seized guns and cocaine.
The suspects were detained at two addresses in Dublin following five searches yesterday morning in the city and in Bettystown, Co Meath.
At one address in Dublin’s north inner city a man, who is a suspect for Dunne’s murder in April, was arrested along with his girlfriend. During a second search operation a man was arrested at a house in Blanchardstown in west Dublin. This man is also a suspect for Dunne’s murder.
The three, who are all in their 20s, are being questioned in Garda stations in the city centre.
Two addresses were searched in the city centre, one in Blanchardstown, one in Dublin 7 and one in Bettystown. As well as making the arrests, gardaí from Mountjoy station also found cocaine valued at €70,000 and two handguns.
The two men arrested are aligned to an organised crime gang operating in the north inner city run by two local criminals, one of whom is a sex offender.
The pair have links to the Christy Kinahan international drug cartel in Spain.
The two gang leaders, in their 30s, are well known to gardaí and now form part of the investigation into the murder of Eamon Dunne, who was shot dead in the Faussagh House pub in Cabra.
Dunne (34), Dunsoughly Drive, Finglas, was the leader of Dublin’s main drugs gang. He assumed control of the Finglas-based gang when its then leader, Martin “Marlo” Hyland, was shot dead by the gang in December 2006.