Gardaí targeting the sale and supply of drugs in Dublin stopped a van on Arran Quay in the city centre on 24 August 2010.[1][2] Officers seized 200 kg of what was believed to be cannabis resin, worth an estimated €1.4 million subject to analysis.[1][2] The 60-year-old driver was arrested and detained at the Bridewell Garda Station under section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act.[1][2]

At about 10 p.m. on 25 August, officers searched a premises at an industrial estate near Rathcoole as a follow-up operation and recovered a further quantity of cannabis, provisionally valued at €400,000.[1][2] A 40-year-old man was arrested at the scene and detained at Clondalkin Garda Station.[1][2] Gardaí later arrested a third man, aged 23, in Dublin city centre in connection with the seizure, which they then valued altogether at €1.6 million.[3]

Gardaí said the operation had disrupted the activities of a major west Dublin crime gang and that further arrests were expected.[2]