A COUPLE from Rathcoole in Dublin and a lorry driver from Derry are due to appear at a special sitting of Magherafelt Magistrate’s Court in Co Derry today charged in connection with the discovery of what the PSNI. have called one of the biggest ever finds of heroin in Northern Ireland. Eight kilos of heroin and 210,000 ecstasy tablets were found when police in Derry stopped and searched a lorry and a van which were being driven across the Foyle bridge on Saturday.
A 41-year-old local man has been charged with possessing the heroin with intent to supply and with possessing the ecstasy tablets with intent to supply them.
The Dublin couple, a 27-year-old man and his 24-year-old partner, have both been charged with being concerned in the supply of heroin and ecstasy. The man has additionally been charged with obstructing police by giving a false name after he was arrested. The drugs were found during a security alert in Derry which caused the closure of the city’s other river crossing at Craigavon bridge.