Equipment used to press cocaine, €66,000 in cash, money counters and drugs with street value of €2.6m found in Swords and Shankill under Operation Tara
A cocaine mixing and processing facility has been discovered in a property in Shankill, south Dublin, during a significant Garda operation involving an organised crime gang. Gardaí believe they have disrupted the activities of a drugprocessing and supply network based in the city.
The operation by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, on both sides of the city, has led to the seizure of cocaine valued at about €2.6 million as well as €66,000 in cash, a cocaine press, money counters and other drug-distribution paraphernalia.
A man and woman, aged 28 and 22 years respectively, have been arrested as part of the investigation, which was continuing as other suspects have been identified. They were arrested on suspicion of facilitating and enhancing drug-distribution activities for an organised crime group.
Both suspects were being detained under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act at a Garda station in Dublin. That legislation, under which serious gang activity is investigated, allows for suspects to be detained for up to seven days without charge.
