THREE PEOPLE were arrested by gardaí following three separate seizures of drugs worth almost €1 million in Cork and Dublin yesterday.
A 25-year-old woman was arrested after the discovery of cocaine worth € 210,000 at Cork airport. Customs officers found the drug during a search of the luggage of a Venezuelan woman who had travelled via Malaga in Spain.
Separately, gardaí seized cannabis worth €600,000 in a raid on an apartment in Douglas on Cork city's southside.
A local man in his early 20s was arrested in the raid at about 5pm.
The man and woman were being held at Togher Garda station last night. However, officers are satisfied that there is no connection between the two seizures.
In south Dublin, a man was arrested after gardaí found cannabis worth some €180,000 in the vehicle he was driving. The man, in his 20s, was arrested following the vehicle search at Kilakee Road, Rathfarnham, at 1.50am.