Man in 50s arrested after €8 million in drugs seized in Dublin

Gardaí have seized over €8,000,000 of suspected illegal drugs and €1,000,000 cash, and arrested one man (50’s), in a search operation conducted under warrant, at a residence in The Ward, Dublin 11, on the evening of Friday 19th July 2024.

The intelligence-led operation was conducted by Dublin Crime Response Team (DCRT).

Suspected illegal drugs seized included cocaine, cannabis, ketamine, LSD and MDMA.

The suspected drugs will now be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) to undergo analysis.

The arrested man (50’S) is detained pursuant to Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at a Garda Station in the Dublin area.

Further cash, vehicles and designer goods were seized in a number of follow-up searches across the Dublin Metropolitan Region.

Assistant Commissioner, Dublin Metropolitan Region, Angela Willis, said “the seizure of what is a significant quantity of drugs and cash is a major blow to this organised crime group which has been causing so much misery in communities right across the city.”

“Cash is the lifeblood of crime groups and the seizure of amounts of this scale causes significant disruption. Gardaí continue to target those that destroy lives through their activities” added 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, and local—involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale, and supply of controlled drugs.