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Gardaí seize €8,000 worth of suspected cocaine and cannabis herb under Operation Tara Athleague Co Roscommon November 25, 2021

Issue Date: 26th November 2021

Gardaí in Roscommon have seized €8,000 worth of suspected cocaine and cannabis herb under Operation Tara following a search in Athleague Co Roscommon on Thursday November 25, 2021.

At 3.30pm yesterday, November 25, Gardaí carried out a search of a house in Athleague Co Roscommon and seized €7,840 worth of suspected cocaine and €140 of cannabis herb as well as two shotgun cartridges.

Two men, one in his mid- 50s and the other in his late 20s, were arrested at scene and were detained at Roscommon Garda station under the provisions of Section 2 of the Drug trafficking Act 1996.

These men have since been released without charge pending a file being sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.