Limerick garda and drugs unit involved in investigation targeting criminal activity

LIMERICK garda and drugs unit are involved in supporting the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) in an ongoing investigation targeting criminal activity.

As part of Operation Tara and ongoing investigations targeting organised crime, personnel from the GNDOCB conducted an operation which began on Monday.

This follows a significant nationwide investigation targeting the criminal activity of a number of participants and the leadership of a criminal organisation suspected of being involved in carrying out a number of serious drug-related Intimidation attacks nationally.

This operation involved the search of 16 residential and business premises and the arrest on Monday of three men as well as one woman under Section 72 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 as amended.

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These four individuals were detained under Section 50 of Criminal Justice Act 2007 and Section 4 Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a number of garda stations nationally.

The three men and the woman have since been released without charge pending submission of a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

During the course of the search operation 12 vehicles were seized with concealments located in a number of these along with €32,668 in cash, 2kg of cannabis and number of electronic devices including phones and laptops.