Squad catches garda with cocaine

THE Garda’s top gangland squad will examine the phone records and bank accounts of a garda caught with hundreds of euro worth of cocaine.

The garda was arrested on Monday morning on Chancery Street, in Dublin’s north inner city, in the company of a “low-level” drug dealer, who was also arrested.

The Organised Crime Unit (OCU) will conduct a detailed investigation into the background of the garda in a bid to determine whether or not he was passing on information to drug gangs.