Man (30s) arrested after €110,000 worth of cannabis seized at Bauer Media offices in Dublin
Ellen O'Donoghue
Gardaí seized drugs at the Dublin offices of Bauer Media on Monday and arrested an employee of the company in his 30s.
Today FM and Newstalk radio stations are broadcast from the offices.
The suspect is not a broadcaster or journalist and has no role in the editorial process at the broadcaster, according to The Irish Times.
The paper understands he works in a support role at the organisation.
He was questioned after cannabis valued at €110,000 was seized after being sent to the building via the postage system.
The drugs were due to be delivered via parcel post to Marconi House, Digges Lane, Dublin 2, but the contents of the package were detected during checks of the postage and parcel system, The Irish Times said.
Those checks, which involve parcels being scanned and checked by sniffer dogs, are routinely carried out so drugs and other contraband can be seized.
In a joint operation involving Revenue officers and the Garda Síochána, the parcel was delivered to the intended address, Marconi House, on Monday in a controlled operation.
When it was signed for, the suspect was arrested and the drugs seized.
Revenue and gardaí said in a statement that 5.5kg of suspected cannabis was seized and is subject to analysis by Forensic Science Ireland.
“The joint operation was conducted by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, DMR South Central Divisional Drug Unit and Revenue’s Customs Service,” a statement said.
The man arrested was detained for questioning at a city centre Garda station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.
