Issue Date: 02/09/2025
As part of Operation Tara and ongoing investigations targeting the sale and distribution of controlled drugs and associated criminal activity in the area, Gardaí from the Galway Divisional Drugs Unit seized cocaine with an estimated street value of €161,000 and arrested a man on 1st of September 2025.
Gardaí searched a residential property in Killimor and recovered the drugs.
A man, aged in his 20s, was arrested and detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a station in the Garda North Western Region.
He has subsequently been released without charge pending the preparation of a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The drugs will be sent for analysis to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI).
Investigations are ongoing.
