Longford Gardaí weed out over €12K drugs and cash haul
Woman in her 30's arrested and charged
Longford Gardaí have arrested and charged a woman in her 30's following a raid of a house in the town last Thursday, October 23. The search of the building resulted in a seizure of cannabis and cocaine worth almost €12,000, and a sum of cash valued at €825.
During the raid, officers from the Divisional Drugs Unit uncovered a quantity of cannabis with an estimated street value of €10,000, and cocaine with an estimated street value of €1,800.
A woman was arrested and detained at Longford Garda Station before subsequently being charged with offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act. She will now appear before a sitting of Longford District Court at a later date. Speaking about the incident, a Garda spokesman said, “As part of ongoing investigations into the sale and supply of drugs in the region, Gardaí from the Longford Divisional Drugs Unit conducted a search of a home in Longford Town on the afternoon of the 23rd of October 2025.”
The spokesperson added that the drugs will now be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis, while investigations are ongoing.
The seizure in Longford was just one of a number of successful Garda raids carried out around the country last Thursday as part of Operation Tara, a national anti-drugs strategy. The focus of Operation Tara is to disrupt, dismantle and prosecute drug trafficking networks at all levels – international, national, local – involved in the importation, distribution, and local sale and supply of drugs.