A man has been arrested after gardai seized drugs and cash from a home in west Dublin.
Officers discovered €325,000 of cocaine, €3,575 in cash, and other drug paraphernalia during the search of a residential property on Wednesday afternoon. The five kilograms of cocaine and other items were found at a home in Ashfield Court in Mulhuddart.
The man, in his 20s, is currently detained under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at Blanchardstown Garda station. A garda spokesman said: "Investigations are ongoing."
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The seizure comes as part of Operation Tara; an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy, which was launched by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in 2021.
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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