Gardaí seize €500k of drugs

GARDAÍ have described the seizure of drugs with an estimated street value of in excess of half a million euro as “very significant”, and revealed that the case was very close to a gangland-style operation.

Ten kilogrammes of a chemical suspected to be mephedrone, with an estimated street value of more than €500,000, and close on 8,000 ecstasy tablets, worth €40,000, were uncovered when detectives and uniformed gardaí swooped on a house in Lee Drive, Tralee, Co Kerry.

A woman in her 20s was arrested at the scene under section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act and questioned at Tralee garda station before being released shortly after 8pm on Thursday. A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.