Ecstasy seizure at Rosslare Europort
Officers from Revenue's Customs service at Rosslare Europort, assisted by Gardai from the GNDU today (04/12/2005) seized 113,000 Ecstasy tablets (11Kgs) valued at over €1 Million. The drugs were discovered in a sophisticated concealment in the bumper of a Saab motor vehicle which arrived on the car-ferry from Cherbourg. A Lithuanian man in his thirties has been arrested under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act and is being held at Wexford Garda station.
The find resulted from intelligence.
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