Issue Date: 6th September 2021
On Monday September 6, 2021 as part of ongoing investigations targeting persons suspected to be involved in organised crime operating in the Galway area, a Multi-Agency Operation was conducted by personnel attached to the Revenue Customs Service, the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau and the Galway Divisional Drugs Unit.
The operation resulted in the search of a premises under warrant in the Headford Road area of Galway City.
During the course of this operation 1.7Kg of suspected cannabis herb with an estimated value of €34,000 was seized.
Gardaí arrested a man in his late 30s at the scene. He is presently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at North Western Regional HQ, Galway.
