Gardaí searched an industrial unit in Blanchardstown on 7 March 2012 and seized cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €400,000, arresting two men aged 29 and 24 at the scene.[1] The men were detained at Blanchardstown station under drug-trafficking legislation.[1] That afternoon, drug-unit officers searched a house in nearby Castleknock and recovered two shotguns along with a small quantity of cannabis herb and cocaine, arresting two men aged 26 and 24.[2] The Castleknock pair were detained while the firearms went for examination.[2]
Gardaí seize €400,000 cannabis grow and guns in Dublin raids
Gardaí searched an industrial unit in Blanchardstown on 7 March 2012 and seized cannabis plants valued at €400,000, arresting two men. That afternoon a second search at a Castleknock house found two shotguns plus small amounts of cannabis and cocaine, and two more men were arrested.
🇮🇪 Blanchardstown and Castleknock, Dublin · Ireland
- Arrested
- 4
- Agency
- An Garda Síochána
- Cannabis
- Living plants
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Arrested
- 4
- Value (official estimate)
- EUR 400,000
- Agency
- An Garda Síochána
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Living plants
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Home, Other building
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- An Garda Síochánagarda.ieArchived copyCannabis plants seized and two arrests in Blanchardstown, Dublin on the 7/3/12
- An Garda Síochánagarda.ieArchived copyDrug seizure and arrest during Garda operation in Blancharstown, Dublin on the 7/3/12
Open questions the AI reported
- No plant count was published, only the €400,000 street-value estimate.
- The quantities of cannabis herb and cocaine found in Castleknock were not stated and are left out of the figures.
- Both opened sources are Garda releases; no independent coverage was found.
- No charges or court outcomes were reported.
