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Gardaí seize €70,000 of suspected cannabis during Galway house search
Cannabis plants (stock) (PA)
Gardaí seized €70,000 worth of suspected cannabis during the search of a house in Galway city this weekend.
Officers from the Divisional Drugs Unit searched a house in the Doughiska area where they found the suspected drugs.
No arrests were made during the search, and gardaí say that investigations are ongoing.
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“This seizure forms part of Operation Tara, an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy, which was launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris on July 2, 2021,” a garda statement revealed.
“The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks, at all levels - international, national, local - involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, local sale and supply of controlled drugs.”
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