A man has been charged in connection with the seizure of €220,000 worth of drugs, an imitation firearm and a small quantity of cash following a raid on a house in Cork on Thursday night.
The man, aged in his 30s, was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 is due to appear before Court number 1, Cork District Court, on Saturday morning.
The court appearance follows a search of a house in the Evergreen Road area of Cork City around 9pm on Thursday. An estimated €210,000 worth of cocaine and €10,000 worth of cannabis and €3,100 in cash were recovered.
Gardaí also recovered an imitation firearm in the search conducted as part of Operation Tara which is a national operation aimed at disrupting, dismantling and prosecuting drug trafficking networks.
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The drugs have been sent to the Forensic Science Ireland laboratory in Dublin to confirm their purity and estimated street value.
