Gardaí Make €1.7m Midlands Drug Seizure

Suspects heroin and cannabis were discovered in Carlow Town on Sunday

Gardaí have seized €1.7m worth of drugs in the Midlands.

Carlow Drugs Unit stopped and searched a car in Carlow town and recovered suspected heroin and cannabis with an estimated street value of more than €136,000.

In a follow-up search of a house in the town, 12kg of suspected heroin, with an estimated street value of €1.68 million; cannabis herb and resin with a value of almost €50,000 and Alprazolam and Zopiclone tablets were seized.

A woman aged in her 30s was arrested and is currently being detained at a Garda station in the Eastern Region under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.

All seized items will be submitted to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis. 

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