Four held as cocaine worth €100,000 seized

Gardaí have arrested four people and believe they have smashed the largest cocaine distribution operation on the northside of…

Gardaí have arrested four people and believe they have smashed the largest cocaine distribution operation on the northside of Dublin.

Three men and a woman are being questioned after Garda seized a kilogramme and a half of cocaine worth €100,000 in Dublin yesterday evening.

The men - one age 26 and two in their early thirties - and a 36-year-old woman are being held under the Drug Trafficking Act and can be detained for up to seven days.

The drugs were seized from two separate premises by gardaí from the North Central Divisional Drug unit based at Store Street.