Overview
- Officers searched a premises in Co Louth, seizing 506kg of herbal cannabis valued at about €10.12m.
- The joint action was carried out by Revenue Customs Service and the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau under Operation Tara.
- Three men—two in their 30s and one in his 50s—were arrested on suspicion of facilitating drug trafficking for an organised crime group.
- The suspects were arrested under Section 72 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 and are detained under Section 50 of the 2007 Act at Garda stations in Louth and Dublin.
- Revenue asked businesses and the public to report smuggling information in confidence on 1800 295 295, as inquiries continue.