06/02/2008

Four Arrested Over €10m Cannabis Raid

Gardaí have arrested four men following the seizure of €10.5m worth of cannabis in Co Kildare, this morning.

Five hundred kilos of the drug were found in a car on the Naas Road and another 1,000 kilos on land near Newbridge.

At around 7.30am local and Garda National Drug Unit officers stopped a car on the Naas Road and two men were arrested and 500 kilos of cannabis was seized.

Two more men were then arrested in Newbridge and in a follow up search on land near the town, another 1,000kilos of cannabis were found.

It is understood the raid took place as part of an ongoing surveillance operation by local and national drugs units targeting a north Dublin drug trafficker.

He is now one of the four men being questioned at Naas and Newbridge Garda Stations.

Two cars and a truck have been seized and follow up searches are continuing.

(VB)

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