GARDAÍ smashed a cannabis factory operation in Limerick City today (Friday) when armed officers swooped on a house and netted €300,000 worth of cannabis and cannabis plants.
€10,000 in cash was also seized by Gardaí during the planned operation.
Today’s crackdown on the illegal sale and supply of drugs in the Treaty City was led by the Limerick Divisional Drug Unit supported by the Garda Regional Armed Support Unit (ASU).
Shortly before midday armed Gardai using a battering ram assisted drug squad officers in gaining entry to the property.
Four men who were in the house on Clare Street, situated just outside the city centre, were arrested and were being questioned under the Criminal Justice Drug Trafficking Act, 1996.
The four suspects, which include one man in his 30s, two in their 40s, and one in his 60s, can be held for up to a week without being charged.
It’s understood two other males fled the property as Gardaí swept in with a battering ram and steel cutters.
Gardaí seized 15 kilos of cannabis in the house along with 30 cannabis plants.
