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POLICE IN THE North have uncovered over €3 million worth of cocaine, packed into two suitcases.
The discovery was made at a commercial premises in Tyrone yesterday.
Local officers searched a recently-delivered container of furniture, following a tip-off, and uncovered the haul.
The 50 kilo find is believed to be one of the biggest hauls of cocaine ever made in Northern Ireland.
“A conservative value for this haul would be £2.5 million. A street value would be substantially higher,” PSNI Detective Superintendent Noel Mullan said.
“It is undoubtedly one of the biggest cocaine finds ever made in Northern Ireland.”
To put the size of the find in some context — in the last three years, the PSNI seized a total of 49 kilos in over 1,000 separate seizures. There were only two seizures of 3 kilos or more.
“Last night we got 50 kilos,” Mullan said.
“We will be working with law enforcement colleagues in various parts of the world to establish where this came from, where it was going to and who was involved.
It is unlikely that such a substantial amount was destined for the Northern Ireland market but we’ll see where our enquiries lead.
In an unconnected incident, Dutch authorities have seized 20 kilos of cocaine which was destined for the Fermanagh area.
No arrests have been made in either case.
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Shouldn’t this be “Colombia”? Who wrote this- Steve Harvey?
Further information about the Colombia connection can be swallowed at the IRA/SF offices.
No this is about Colombia
*Columbia
How about Kumbaya, we’ve had everything else :p
Leo/diarmiud, is the main source of funding for your cultural ambassadors,the uda/uvf coming from jumble sales and mini marathon sponsorship cards?
Could be worse, could be doing business with the C.I.A.
Strange that the drug gangs and The Gardai keep changing tactics but the law makers and judiciary just keep handing out suspended sentences. If I stole something would I not just be able to say it is for my own use. Or if I was an arsonist would the government give me lead free petrol. Methadone is not working, cold turkey may be the only answer to get off heroin and bringing drugs into Ireland should be treated as endangering a nation with zero tolerance regardless of the poor mouth stories
Won’t do anything to help. Just punish already desperate people
John doe, that’s only if you let them out again.
That’s what they do in the USA doesn’t seem to have solved their drug problem.
Compare that to Portugal where possession is decriminalised, drug related deaths, illness and harm all reducing.
What about the elderly people being savagely attacked in their homes so that drug habits canbe fed, do they not count? If you are only doing at weekends for the craic you are contributing to the of mass fortunes of the like ,of John Gilligan and deserve what punishment you get. A drug free society may not be possible but surely it is worth a try.
Columbia, I meant to say Colombia. No no no I meant to say Phillipines. Sorry it’s the Philippines!!!!
Our government should legalise marajuna HERB FOR A START HAVE INJECTION CLINICS FIR DRUG USERS AND SLOWLY PUT U NO WHO OUT OF BUSINESS
Irishman went to Afghanistan to see if there was any craic. The mujahideen told him he had made a complete hash of the interview. He was a proper dopium!
One silver bullet….. Legalisation.
It’s COLOMBIA
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