Criminology and Psychology

Cocaine worth €175,000 has been seized at Dublin Airport.Around 2.5kg of cocaine had been concealed in the back support of two haversacks belonging to a 32-year-old man who had travelled from Santiago, Chile.He was arrested and questioned by gardaí at Dublin Airport, and is expected to appear in court today.Customs officers at the airport have seized drugs with a street value of approximately €8m so far in 2008.

Officers seized 150,000 cigarettes and 12 kilos of tobacco, with a street value of €60,000 after searching passengers who had arrived at Dublin airport on a charter flight from the Canary Islands. The shipment represented a potential loss to the Revenue of €46,500.The searches were carried out as part of an intelligence-led operation against the gang. A Customs spokesman said: "This was another significant success for Customs following a similar operation last week against the same smuggling gang."

Dutch woman and her 17-year-old son who between them swallowed cocaine pellets worth over €52,000 have been arrested at Dublin Airport. They were among seven people caught trying to smuggle drugs at the airport in the past week. The 47-year-old woman and her son arrived on a flight from Amsterdam. They were stopped at customs and found to have swallowed almost a kilogramme of cocaine pellets between them, worth an estimated €52,500. A 44-year-old Latvian man, with an address in Dublin, also aroused the suspicions of customs officers when he arrived on a flight from Paris having earlier started his journey in French Guyana. He was found to have swallowed one kilogramme of cocaine worth €70,000. A 17-year-old Irish youth was stopped when he arrived from Alicante and was discovered to have 1,248 sleeping tablets in his possession. A file is being prepared for the Republic's Director of Public Prosecutions by the Irish Medicines Board. Officers discovered 9kgs of cannabis, worth over €...