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Updated 3.12pm 8/2/17
A MAN IN his 40s has been charged in connection with yesterday’s seizure of cannabis plants worth €450,000.
Gardaí raided a property at Corr na Mona in Co Galway where the Divisional Drugs Unit discovered “a highly sophisticated growhouse”.
The plants there have an estimated street value of €450,000, with a quantity of dry cannabis also being discovered.
The Galway raid stemmed from an arrest of a driver in his 40s at the Sally Gap in Co Wicklow on Monday night. After the man’s car was stopped and searched cannabis herb with a street value of €2,000 was seized.
The man appeared before Bray District Court at 2pm today charged in relation with the seizure.
Yesterday, another man in his 20s was arrested following a raid at a property in Co Carlow. He is currently being held at Carlow Garda Station.
The grow house, containing cannabis plants “at a mature stage of growth” and with an estimated street value of €250,000, was discovered at a property at Killedmond, Borris, in the southeastern county.
The house in question had been sealed off for a forensic investigation.
With reporting from Sean Murray.
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