A woman and two men were in custody in north Dublin last night following the seizure of ecstasy tablets with an estimated street value of £500,000, writes Catherine Cleary, Drugs and Crime Correspondent.
Around 40,000 tablets were found on the floor of a car near Donaghmede shopping centre in north Dublin at around 9.05 p.m. last night. The driver of the car, a 26-year-old woman, was arrested and taken to Clontarf Garda station.
The drugs were divided into 40 packets of 1,000 tablets, which could each be sold for between £10 and £12. They were packed into a large sports bag, which was placed on the floor of the car. The seizure was part of an ongoing Garda operation.
A man was arrested on the street near where the car was stopped shortly afterwards. Gardai said the 35 year-old man was found with about 20 deals of heroin and a small amount of cocaine and amphetamines.
A third man, aged 38, and believed to be the boyfriend of the woman driver, was arrested in Clontarf shortly before midnight. All three people are being held under Section Two of the Criminal Justice Act.