Two arrested over Cork drug seizure

The men were arrested following a Garda search of a house in Cork City yesterday.

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TWO MEN HAVE been arrested in Cork in connection with the seizure of cannabis yesterday.

Gardaí in the Cork Divisional Drug Unit carried out an operation last night during which a house in Dillons Cross was searched.

Cannabis with an estimated street value of about €250,000 was uncovered in the raid.

The arrested men, who are aged in their 30s and 40s, are being detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act.

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