Two people arrested as gardaí seize €180,000 in cash in Dublin
James Cox
Gardaí arrested two people and seized €180,000 in cash in a search on Sunday morning.
Gardaí attached to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau carried out a search at a residence in Dublin 22.
The search was conducted as part of Operation Tara and an ongoing investigation into a west Dublin based organised crime group involved in the sale and supply of controlled drugs.
During the course of the search, gardaí seized cash in excess of €180,00.
A man and a woman (both in their 30s) were arrested in connection with this seizure.
Both of them are currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at Garda stations in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.
Investigations are ongoing, gardaí said.
