Father and daughter arrested over €500,000 cocaine haul

A FATHER and his daughter were among three people in custody last night following a €500,000 cocaine seizure in Cork.

Yesterday’s dawn raid on an isolated rented house in Leamlara, south of Rathcormac, was the latest in a series of almost 40 raids mounted as part of a garda crackdown sparked by the cocaine-related death of a man in Rathcormac six weeks ago.

The drugs were discovered at around 7am after detectives from Fermoy Garda Station, backed up officers from Midleton and Cobh, and a sniffer dog, swooped on the bungalow in the townland of Dundullerick.