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Stop and Search
Gardaí find €56k worth of drugs in taxi
Two men were arrested and are being detained by gardaí.
GARDAÍ DISCOVERED €56K worth of drugs when they searched a taxi in Dublin today.
They said that as part of an investigation targeting the sale and supply of drugs, members of the Organised Crime Unit carried out a search operation in the Tallaght area this afternoon.
Gardaí stopped and searched a taxi on the Greenhills Road and discovered cocaine with an estimated street value of €56,000.
The occupants of the car, two males aged in their 30s and late teens, were arrested.
The men are currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at Tallaght Garda Station.
They can be held for up to seven days.
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