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GARDAÍ HAVE ARRESTED a man in his 30s following a €252k cocaine seizure in Kildare.
Last week, officers raided a house in the Kildangan area where they discovered the drugs as well as a cocaine press, scales and bagging and packing machines.
Officers attached to the Kildare detective unit had carried out a search of a house after obtaining a warrant from Naas District Court. At that time no arrests had been made.
However, this afternoon, gardaí confirmed they had detained a man in his 30s.
A spokesman said: “As part of the investigation into the discovery of €252,000 worth of cocaine from a house in Kildangan, Co Kildare, a male in his 30s has been arrested. He is currently being detained at Kildare Garda Station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking Act), 1996.”
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Atlantic 252. Only people of a certain generation will get that !!!
@Conor Noonan: if you mast…
@Conor Noonan: Get your coat !!
Will the end users take any responsibility if violence is used to recover money owed for drugs seized? Remember it always harms someone THINK BEFORE YOU BUY http://www.thinkbeforeyoubuy.ie
@Think Before You Buy: You’re not wrong, but people everywhere are going to use mind altering products and stimulants and that’ll never change, despite how much they are moralised to. So what really needs to change is prohibition, it doesn’t work and never will.
@Think Before You Buy: I can’t help but think you’re trying to tell everyone something
@Tomàs: fun fact: ploice dont test drivers for coke because half of Dublin would test positive… many of them business men, politicians and yes, Garda too. Its the same world over.
@Chaos Ape: ooohhhhhh chaos!!
10 hits in a row – Atlantic 252 ;-)
252k…. That’s not to be sniffed at.
@Noely Kelly: Something that the Garda can blow their trumpets about? Could be useful as Marching Power for the New recruits?
Up the lilyWHITES!
Very exact sum.
Great work, another fine example on willing the war on drugs, ha
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