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Six Arrested Over Wicklow Drugs Seizure

Drugs and cash worth almost three quarters of a million euro were seized in Dublin and Wicklow on Thursday.

Shortly before 3 o'clock Gardai stopped a car at Rathnew and searched it

They found a suitcase with about €600,000 worth of cannabis inside.

The driver, a 42 year old man was arrested at the scene, and taken to Pearse Street Garda station.

After this another car was stopped, on the Walkinstown Road in Dublin, officers searched this vehicle too and 85-thousand euro in cash was seized.

A 46 year old man was arrested there, afterward Gardai began a third search, this time at a house in Dublin city.

They found small amounts of Cannabis herb along with 45,000 euro in cash, one woman and two men who were in the house have also been arrested.
 

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