Major drug arrest ‘won’t dent supply’

GARDAÍ yesterday hailed the arrest of a major Irish cocaine trafficker in Spain but fear it won’t have any significant impact on the supply of the drug to the Irish market.

Drug officers said the Irishman arrested by police in the popular resort of Alicante was a major supplier of cocaine to Irish dealers for a number of years.

“This is significant in terms of who we’ve caught. It was a good arrest,” said one garda source. “He was a significant enough player. A lot of recent seizures would have been down to him.”