Gardaí seize drugs with street value of €400,000

GARDAÍ confirmed yesterday they had made drug seizures totalling €400,000 in Cork, one of which was the largest haul of heroin in the city this year.

Acting on information, drugs squad officers followed a man in his late 20s to an open area in Shanakiel yesterday morning where they discovered a bag containing heroin. The man, described as a local, was arrested at the scene and taken to Gurranabraher Garda Station for questioning.

Detectives from the Cork City Drugs Squad, based in Anglesea Street, and drug squad officers from Gurranabraher then went to a nearby house frequented by the man where a search revealed another quantity of heroin.