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HEROIN AND COCAINE worth up to €5.5 million was seized by gardaí in Co Kildare yesterday.
As part of an ongoing investigation, members from the Garda National Drugs Unit carried out a search and arrest operation yesterday afternoon in Naas, Co Kildare.
During the operation, two vehicles were searched, resulting in the seizure of approximately 35kgs of heroin and cocaine with an estimated street value of between €3.5million and €5.5 million (pending analysis).
Two males aged in their 30s were arrested and are currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at Naas Garda station.
In follow up searches yesterday evening in the Palmerstown and Celbridge areas, gardaí seized cocaine, cannabis herb and heroin with an estimated street value in excess of €1.25 million (pending analysis).
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good to see this crap taken off the streets. Tha gardai that do this type of work are the toughest bravest citizens in the state & no money could pay them to do it. They dont get enough of support.
They do a good job and get payed well for it.
Really? I suggest you go into the courts & see who they have to deal with before you consider their pay grade. I wouldnt or couldnt do their job.
Is your avator meant to be ironic
I don’t know enough to comment on how good or bad they are at their job. Fair play to them but nobody is forcing them to do it. It’s your opinion.
Great work get this dirty drug out of Ireland
Well done to the Gardai, they are doing a good job despite all the obstacles put in their way
Great find, that disgusting drug killed my sister, great to see such a big find and hopefully all involved wont see freedom for manys a year now.
Nidge won’t be happy!
Can I hit the red thumb twice for the love hate jokes? .. Please Journal
Hahahaha
@baz – ‘joke’ implies it was funny, it wasn’t
Nidge doesn’t joke!
Great capture, heroin is a scourge across all societies. Hopefully there won’t be any punishment attacks as a result of this seizure.
At least it’s more productive that all the recent cannabis seizures!
Do a lot of the seizures seem to be in the Kildare area?
Or am I just misremembering?
Celbridge is the Baltimore of Leinster.
Would you like some cake fathers, theres cocaine in it! Oh sorry its those what do you call its…RAISINS!
Careful, the joke police are patrolling…
Hate that, somebody’s gonna be pi$$ed !
About time they found something other than cannabis. There is a lot more of the sh*t on the street to Gardai, Win for you now but a lot more work to do!
I just can’t get that in such a small country there are quantities bigger than this latest find stashed all over the place and its hard to find? Surely its being managed by a small number of people, all of whom will be known to the gards and customs.
Gardai did well here but it is what they are paid to do…..
Not very well I’m afraid. The pay doesn’t reflect the dangers there exposed to. After all the cut over the last few yrs it’s worse than ever before. Gardai don’t get enough credit.
Does anyone know how much of the 35kg was heroin and how much was cocaine? I’m trying to figure out what the official Garda value of a gram of either of these drugs is.
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