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25 Oct 2025

€200,000 drug seizure in County Longford

Cannabis herb was seized in Edgeworthstown

Cannabis herb was seized in Edgeworthstown

As part of an intelligence led operation targeting a west Dublin organised crime gang Gardaí from the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau and the Garda Special Crime Task Force stopped a vehicle in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford yesterday, Thursday, February 7, 2019.

During the course of a search of the vehicle cannabis herb (subject to analysis) was seized with an estimated street value of €200,000.

A man in his 50s was arrested at the scene and is currently detained at Granard Garda Station under the provisions of Section 2 – Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
 
Investigations are continuing.
 

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