Gardaí swoop on dealers

Gardaí have dealt a blow to a drug-dealing gang supplying highly dangerous chemicals.

The six-week covert operation targeted the sale of MDVP and PVP, two similar synthetic stimulants, at St Mary’s Mansions flats complex in Dublin’s north inner city.

Gardaí arrested seven “key suppliers” of the gang, including five young adults, aged 18 to 23 and two juveniles, aged 16 and 17.