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08/07/2008
Garda Sting Halts €4 Drug Smuggle Bid
Gardaí have seized a huge drugs cache - just before it was due to be distributed on the streets of Dublin.
The shipment worth over €4 million was seized after a major operation involving the national drugs unit and the surveillance unit.
The gang involved in the attepted smuggling is reported to have been targeted by garda for some months, and this was the third shipment to be intercepted by detectives from the gang since the start of the year.
Armed detectives captured the 20 kilos of heroin after they stopped a car near the Halfway House pub at Ashtown, on the Navan Road, shortly after 9pm last night.
They arrested the 21-year-old driver of the car, who is from Ballymun, and brought him to Blanchardstown garda station for questioning.
Last January, gardai seized 32 kilos of heroin, with a street value of €6.4m, from the same gang in west Dublin and a further 10 kilos, worth €2m was recovered by detectives in Co Meath in March.
Senior officers hailed the seizure as a highly significant success against the criminal outfit, which is known to have established a network of contacts overseas.
(DW)
The shipment worth over €4 million was seized after a major operation involving the national drugs unit and the surveillance unit.
The gang involved in the attepted smuggling is reported to have been targeted by garda for some months, and this was the third shipment to be intercepted by detectives from the gang since the start of the year.
Armed detectives captured the 20 kilos of heroin after they stopped a car near the Halfway House pub at Ashtown, on the Navan Road, shortly after 9pm last night.
They arrested the 21-year-old driver of the car, who is from Ballymun, and brought him to Blanchardstown garda station for questioning.
Last January, gardai seized 32 kilos of heroin, with a street value of €6.4m, from the same gang in west Dublin and a further 10 kilos, worth €2m was recovered by detectives in Co Meath in March.
Senior officers hailed the seizure as a highly significant success against the criminal outfit, which is known to have established a network of contacts overseas.
(DW)
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