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Ireland Twenty kilos of heroin and 10 kilos of herbal cannabis, with an estimated street value of €4m, were recovered.

Twenty kilos of heroin and 10 kilos of herbal cannabis, with an estimated street value of €4m, were recovered.Twenty-seven firearms and a massive haul of drugs were seized today as two men were arrested in an international police operation against a trafficking gang.The man arrested in the North is aged 34 and from the South, the PSNI said. A 42-year-old man was detained in north Dublin and a second man was held in Belfast as a dozen raids were mounted along the east coast.A mini-arsenal of weapons was taken off the streets including four automatic handguns, silencers and pistols. A number of firearms were also recovered in the North.Gardaí, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Dutch police were all involved in the intelligence and surveillance led operation which has run for several months.Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy said the arrests had damaged a powerful European drugs trafficking network.“We believe that this operation has made significant inroads into an international ...

Johnson Fayiah charged with attempting to smuggle Class A drugs

Johnson Fayiah, a 26-year-old passenger on the flight, was arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle Class A drugs. He was remanded in custody at Antrim Court this week.The three previous cocaine seizures all involved passengers on flights from Amsterdam. In October and in early December Dutch nationals each attempted to smuggle £30,000 worth of the drug into the country, and in mid-December a Londonderry man was arrested after travelling back from Holland carrying more than £2,000 of the drug.