Two arrested after €541k drug seizures in Kildare
Photo of the drugs seized. Image: An Garda Síochána
Gardaí investigating the seizure of €421,000 of cannabis herb at a location in Clane, Co. Kildare arrested a man on Friday, during the course of a search operation.
Aged in his 20s, the man was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at a Garda Station in Co Kildare, in relation to the large drug seizure in early January last year.
In follow-up searches under warrant in Celbridge on Friday night, gardaí seized six kilos of suspected cannabis herb, to the value of approximately €120,000. The drugs seized are now subject to analysis by Forensic Science Ireland.
A man aged in his 30s was arrested and detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, at a Garda station in Co. Kildare.
Both men have been charged and are scheduled to appear before Naas District Court on Monday morning.
Gardaí said that investigations are ongoing.
This seizure forms part of Operation Tara, an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in July 2021. The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute drug trafficking networks at all levels—international, national, and local—involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale, and supply of controlled drugs.
