30/08/2013

Gardaí Carry Out Large Scale Drugs Raid

Some 120 gardaí officers have carried out coordinated raids on 20 premises in an effort to "disrupt" drug enterprises.

In total, drugs with a value of €100,000 were seized from 11 of the premises raided and seven people have been arrested.

Of those seven, three are Irish, two are Polish, one is British and one is Chinese.

Evidence of cannabis manufacturing was uncovered at nine of the raid sites, which garda have said suggests a commercial scale operation, in which the plants are not just grown, but also harvested, dried and packaged.

(MH/JP)

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