Two machine guns have been seized during a planned search in Dublin.
As part of an operation targeting organised crime, a premises in the north inner city was searched yesterday.
During the raid, members of the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau discovered two machine guns and a quantity of ammunition.
Gardaí attached to GNDOCB searched a premises in Dublin last night. In the course of this search, two firearms, believed to be machine guns, and a quantity of ammunition was located and seized.
A 48 year old man has been arrested and is being detained at Mountjoy Garda Station. pic.twitter.com/hQLraSzxhp
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A 48 year-old man was arrested and taken to Mountjoy Garda Station.
He is being held under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act and can be questioned for up to three days.
Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll, heads up Organised and Serious Crime;
"An Garda Síochána, through Organised and Serious Crime and the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau in particular, continues in it's unrelenting determination to take lethal firearms off the streets of Ireland in its ongoing efforts to keep people safe”.
