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CLARE gardai mounted a number of operations in the past week seizing over €6,000 worth of illegal drugs.
On Tuesday, February 22 at 8 pm detectives and uniformed gardaí from Ennistymon and Kilrush conducted a search under warrant at a house in the Lahinch area of the county.
During the course of this search €4,600 worth of suspected Cannabis Herb was seized.
A male in his late 20s was arrested at the scene and detained at Kilrush Garda Station.
This man has since been released from custody and a file is now being prepared for submission to the DPP.
The following evening at at 9pm, the Divisional Drugs Unit stopped a car in the Ennis town area and conducted a search of the vehicle.
During the course of this search suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of €1,500 was seized.
A man in his late 20s was arrested and detained at Ennis Garda and was later released from custody pending submission of a file to the DPP.
On Thursday, February 24, a search of a car was carried out in Clonlara by uniformed members from Killaloe Garda Station.
During the course of the search €3,000 of suspected Cannabis Herb was seized.
All the suspected controlled substances have been forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.
These seizures form part of Operation Tara which is an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy. 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.
