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The five are being detained at Garda stations in the Eastern region
Some of the drug bust on display
Two men and three women have been arrested following the seizure of cannabis and cocaine worth €2.1 million in Dublin and Wicklow.
The five aged in their 40s and 30s are being held after personnel attached to the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau conducted search operations yesterday at residential addresses in both areas.
During the course of the operation conducted with the assistance of the Ballymun and Balbriggan Drug Units, 98 kilos of cannabis and two kilos of cocaine – with a combined estimated street value of €2.1 million – were seized.
Five people were arrested and are being detained at Garda stations in the Eastern region.
One man in his 40s is being detained under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.
Some of the drug bust on display
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The three females, including one in her 40s and two in their 30s, and a male in his 30s are being detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
The seizure forms part of Operation Tara, the enhanced national anti-drugs strategy that was launched by the Garda Commissioner in July 2021.
The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks, at all levels – international, national, local – involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale and supply of controlled drugs.