Cocaine seized at Dublin Airport

GARDAI at Dublin Airport assisted by personnel from the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) and Customs Officers have seized €245,000 worth of cocaine following an operation at Dublin Airport last night.

At approximately 7.50pm, Customs Officers alerted Gardaí that they had detained three passengers who arrived on a flight from mainland Europe earlier that day on suspicion of drug trafficking.

The passengers, two men and woman all aged in their 20s, had ingested a combined approximate 280 pellets of suspected cocaine (pending analysis) worth €245,000.

All three persons were arrested and taken to Ballymun Garda Station detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1996.

One of the arrested men and the woman have since been charged in relation to this incident and they are due to appear before the Criminal Courts of Justice, Court 4, at 10.30am. The other male remains in Garda custody at this time.