06/03/2013

Two Men Arrested Following Heroin Seizure

Two men have been arrested after Gardai seized €112,000 with of heroin in Dublin.

The two men, in their late teens, were arrested after Gardai searched a car on the South Circular Road yesterday afternoon.

Follow-up searches found more heroin in a house.

The seizure is part of an ongoing investigation into drug dealing in Dublin's South Inner City.

(CD/GK)

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