A man in his 30s has been charged and is due to appear before a sitting of Midleton District Court on Monday morning, following the seizure in an East Cork town on Saturday of cannabis with an estimated value of \u20ac50,000, as well as a small quantity of cocaine.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said garda\u00ed attached to the Cork North East Divisional Drugs Unit had conducted a search on Saturday of a residential property in the Cobh area as part of Operation Tara.<\/p>\n
During their search, garda\u00ed seized the drugs, as well as utensils for the mixing and preparation of drugs.<\/p>\n
The man, and a woman in her 20s, were arrested in connection with the investigation and detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.<\/p>\n
The woman was released without charge on Sunday afternoon, and garda\u00ed said a file would be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
On Sunday evening, the garda press office said the man had been charged and was due to appear before a sitting of Midleton District Court on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The seized drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis, the press office added.<\/p>\n
Last month, in a separate garda operation, weapons, vehicles, and electronic devices were seized by detectives and uniformed garda\u00ed, supported by the armed support unit and the dog unit, as part of a garda operation targeting organised crime in Cobh.<\/p>\n
A number of premises and vehicles were searched as part of what a garda source said at the time was a well-resourced operation targeting organised criminal activity in the town.<\/p>\n
The operation involved a large team of garda\u00ed from the Cork county crime and Cork county north-east community engagement units, assisted by the garda armed support unit, the dog unit and other officers.<\/p>\n
As a result of that garda investigation, multiple electronic devices, weapons, vehicles, e-scooters and suspected controlled substances were seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been charged and is due to appear before a sitting of Midleton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-488111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}