Man (30s) and woman in late teens arrested after €240k cannabis seizure
A man in his 30s and a woman in her late teens were arrested by gardaí following the seizure of 12kg of herbal cannabis by Revenue officers in separate locations in Swords, Co Dublin, on Monday, June 9th.
The cannabis has an estimated value of €240,000, and the seizure was the result of a joint operation conducted by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, Revenue's Customs Service and Coolock District Drug Unit.
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Both the man and woman are currently detained in garda stations in North Dublin under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
Investigations are ongoing, gardaí said.
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