Drugs found in prison officer’s car after search

A PRISON officer caught trying to smuggle a “selection box” of drugs into Mountjoy Prison yesterday also had a second quantity of drugs seized from his car.

Gardaí are searching any premises linked to the 39-year-old officer. They are trying to establish where he obtained the drugs and who he had been supplying.

Drugs Minister Pat Carey said he was “disturbed” by the incident.