14 arrested as heroin network smashed

FOURTEEN people were being questioned in the North last night after police smashed a suspected heroin network with Dublin links.

14 arrested as heroin network smashed
Fri, 02 Jun, 2006 - 01:00
Alan Erwin

The suspects, 12 men and two women, were arrested during a series of raids in Ballymena, Co Antrim.

Detectives believe the drugs are being smuggled in from Dublin and from British cities.

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