As part of an intelligence led operation on the 18th April 2019, conducted by Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit in Portlaoise Garda Station, the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and Revenue’s Customs Service, two properties were targeted and searched in the Portlaoise area.
During this operation Revenue officers seized approximately 1kg of herbal cannabis with an estimated street value of €20,000. Resulting from this, Gardai arrested a 22 year-old Lithuanian man, a 23 year-old Irish man and a 20 year old Polish man.
All three prisoners were taken to Portlaoise Garda Station where they were detained under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drugs Trafficking) Act 1996.
Investigations are ongoing
