DUBLIN, April 19 (Xinhua) -- A man has been arrested following a seizure of drugs in large quantity at his residence in Dublin, bringing to eight the total number of such arrests made by police in the Irish capital in a week's time, reported local media RTE on Thursday.
According to the report, police arrested a man in his 60s after they had seized a large amount of cannabis from his house in the city's northern Finglas area.
Police believed that the drugs seized had a street value of around 1 million euros (about 1.24 million U.S. dollars). The arrest was made on Wednesday afternoon, said the report, adding that the man is now in the custody of the police for further interrogation.
Earlier on Tuesday, local media reported that six people including a woman, all in their 20s and 30s, were arrested in Dublin during an operation conducted by the drugs and organized crime bureau of the local police department. A total of 250,000 euros of suspected drug money was seized during the operation which included simultaneous raids on different premises in the city.
Police believed that the people apprehended were involved in a gang group controlled supply of cocaine from Europe to Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to this, a 47-year-old man was reportedly arrested at the Dublin airport on Sunday after customs officers found 103 pellets of cocaine inside his body. A total of 1.4 kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of nearly 100,000 euros was recovered, said the report. (1 euro=1.235 U.S. dollars)
