Drugs and cigarettes worth over €70,000 have been discovered in two seizures in Dublin and Wexford.
Revenue officers at Dublin Mail Centre seized over 3 kilos of herbal cannabis, Zopiclone, Diazepam, and Benzodiazepine tablets, and 3 grams of Butane Honey Oil today.
The drugs have an estimated value of almost €62,000 and were discovered in 20 separate parcels which originated in the USA, Canada, Germany and Croatia.
The seizures were made with the assistance of Revenue detector dog Bailey.
The parcels were declared as items such as ‘dog clothing’, ‘canvas artwork’, ‘glass ashtrays’, ‘board games’, ‘action figures’ and ‘puzzles’.
All parcels were destined for delivery in Dublin, Cork and Galway.
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While revenue officers at Rosslare Europort seized approximately 13,400 cigarettes and 830 grams of tobacco worth over 10-thousand euro yesterday.
Revenue officers stopped and searched a Czech registered van which had disembarked a ferry from France and made the discovery, and a man in his 40s was questioned.
