Largest cocaine haul seized in 18 months

GARDAÍ and Customs have made the largest seizure of cocaine in over a year-and-a-half in an operation targeting a Nigerian drug-trafficking gang.

They confiscated 29kgs of cocaine, with a street value of €2 million, during a raid on a “drug mixing and distribution” factory at an apartment in Navan, Co Meath.

While gardaí do not yet know the purity of the cocaine, they expect it could be at the higher end of the scale given it had just entered Ireland from South America.