Gardai seize €1.2m of ketamine in drugs bust as man (30s) arrested
Approximately €2.2 million worth of drugs – including €1.2m of ketamine – have been seized by gardaí as part of a seizure operation on Friday evening.
A man in his 30s has also been arrested in connection to the operation.
The bust intially began on the M7 motorway in Laois as officers from the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) with assistance from the Clondalkin Drugs Unit intercepted a vehicle.
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Approximately €100,000 worth of suspected cocaine was discovered and seized by Gardaí from the vehicle in question.
This was then followed by a search at a residence in West Dublin which resulted in a further seizure of an estimated €160,000 of cannabis, €1.2 million of ketamine, €530,000 of cocaine, and €210,000 worth of diamorphine.
Gardaí have said that an unspecified quantity of cash and a number of items were also seized by officers.
They added that the seized drugs have been forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.
In a statement, a Garda spokesperson added: 'This seizure forms part of Operation Tara; an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy, which was launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris on 2nd July 2021.
"The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks, at all levels - international, national, local - involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale and supply of controlled drugs."
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