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Revenue officers found around 150kg of suspected herbal cannabis at Rosslare Europort.
Drugs Seizure
Man arrested as €3m worth of cannabis seized in Rosslare
The drugs were found on a freight unit on a ferry that came from Spain.
A MAN HAS been arrested by gardaí after Revenue offices seized suspected herbal cannabis to the value of over €3m.
Revenue officers found around 150kg of the drug during a search of a truck which had disembarked a ferry at Rosslare Europort.
Gardaí arrested a man aged in his 50s following the seizure of the drugs.
He has been detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at a garda station in Co Wexford.
In a statement, Revenue said: “The drugs were discovered when, as a result of routine profiling, an accompanied freight unit that had disembarked a ferry from Bilbao, Spain was stopped and searched.”
“These routine operations are part of Revenue’s ongoing work targeting smuggling and shadow economy activity. If businesses, or members of the public have any information, they can contact Revenue in confidence on Confidential Phone Number 1800 295 295,” the statement said.
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