Gardaí were still questioning four men on the night of 25 August 2005 over the discovery of 1.5 tonnes of cannabis resin valued at €10 million, one of the biggest seizures in the State in recent years.[1] Three of the men were Irish and the fourth was a truck driver from Valencia in Spain.[1]
A Spanish-registered vehicle was being forensically examined after the drugs were intercepted at a commercial property at Carbury, County Kildare, on the Tuesday afternoon.[1] Gardaí believed the vehicle had been in the country for several days and that the Irish dealers behind the shipment had failed to organise a drop-off point after it arrived; the yard where it was being unloaded belonged to a man previously unknown to gardaí.[1]
Among those held were a man from the midlands, an associate in his twenties, and a Blanchardstown drug dealer known to gardaí for over a decade whose associates included former members of the Dublin-based Westies gang.[1] The four were held at Garda stations in Newbridge and Kildare town under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act.[1] A later US diplomatic cable recorded the same seizure as 1.2 tons of resin leading to the detention of three Irish men and a Spaniard.[2]