20/10/2015

Three Arrested Following Cocaine Find

Three men have been arrested in connection with a drugs seizure in Cobh, Co Cork.

Revenue Customs officers and Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau carried out a search of a premises in Cobh as part of an intelligence led operation.

During the operation, cocaine worth an estimated value of €56,000 was seized.

Three males, aged between 30 and 45, were arrested and are currently being detained at Cobh Garda Station under the provisions of section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.

(MH/CD)

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