Gardaí seize €750,000 cannabis grow-house in Ashbourne warehouse raid
Gardaí searched a warehouse near Ashbourne, County Meath on the morning of 25 July 2015 and found cannabis plants worth up to €750,000 growing in an elaborate grow-house. A man in his late forties was arrested at the scene and detained at Kells Garda station.
🇮🇪 Warehouse near Ashbourne, County Meath · Ireland
Gardaí from Ashbourne, assisted by the Eastern Regional Support Unit, carried out a planned search of a warehouse near Ashbourne, County Meath, on the morning of Saturday 25 July 2015.[1]The search was part of ongoing intelligence-led operations targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs in the Dublin and Meath areas.[1]Inside the warehouse officers found cannabis plants, still to be analysed, growing in what they described as an elaborate grow-house, with an estimated street value of up to €750,000.[1][2]
A man in his late forties was arrested at the scene and detained under section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at Kells Garda station.[1][2]The Garda release offered a photograph of the plants to the press on request; no photograph was published with either opened source.[1]
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