BREAKING: Two men arrested after drugs seized in Kildare
Searches were carried out in Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Gardaí investigating the seizure of €421,000 of cannabis herb at a location in Clane, Co. Kildare, in early January 2024, said they yesterday arrested a man, during the course of a search operation.
The man aged in his 20’s was detained under to Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996, at a Garda Station in Co Kildare.
In follow up searches under warrant, executed in Celbridge, Co. Kildare, last night, gardaí seized 6kg of suspected cannabis herb, to the value of approximately €120,000. The drugs seized are now subject to analysis by forensic science Ireland.
A man aged in his 30s was arrested, and detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, at a Garda station in Co Kildare.
Investigations ongoing.
This seizure forms part of Operation Tara, an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in July 2021. The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute drug trafficking networks at all levels—international, national, and local—involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale, and supply of controlled drugs.