€200,000 worth of drugs seized in Glanmire

A woman is due before the courts this morning following a cannabis seizure in Glanmire at the weekend.

Gardaí attached to the Divisional Drugs Unit in Cork city seized €200,000 worth of suspected cannabis and arrested a woman in Glanmire on 28 February.

A spokesperson for An Garda Síochcána said: “In an operation in conjunction with gardaí from the Eastern Region, a car was stopped and searched at Glanmire. Ten kilos of cannabis – with an estimated street value of €200,000 – was seized and a woman aged in her 40s was arrested.”

She was detained at a Garda station in the Southern Region under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.

She was subsequently charged and is scheduled to appear before Cork District Court today, 2 March.

“The seized drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis. Investigations are ongoing,” added the spokesperson.

This seizure forms part of Operation Tara, an enhanced national anti-drugs strategy launched by the then garda commissioner in July 2021.

Operation Tara aims to disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute drug trafficking networks at all levels — international, national, and local — involved in the importation, distribution, cultivation, production, and local sale and supply of controlled drugs.