A MAN IN his 30s has been charged in relation to a large drug seizure in Cork city on Thursday.
A search was carried out by the Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit on Thursday afternoon in an industrial premises.
During the course of the search, a quantity of heroin, Xanax tablets, ecstasy and cocaine with an estimated street value of €167,000 was seized.
A man aged in his 30s was arrested during the search operation and was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at Togher Garda Station.
Gardaí have now charged the man in relation to the seizure.
He is due to appear before a special sitting of Cork District Court this morning at 11am.
Separately on Thursday, gardaí attached to the Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit carried out another search operation in a house and seized approximately half a kilo of suspected heroin with an estimated street value of €70,000.
A man in his 40s was arrested and charged in relation to that seizure.
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