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Man held over €6.5m drugs seizure at Rosslare Europort



A man has been arrested after Cannabis and cocaine with an estimated street value of almost €6.5m have been seized at Rosslare Europort.

The drugs seized include around 288.6kg of herbal cannabis, 72.8kg of cannabis resin and 3.3kg of cocaine, with an estimated value of €6,443,640.

The man, aged in his 40s, is currently detained at a garda station in Co Wexford.

The drugs were discovered within when an accompanied freight unit which had earlier disembarked a ferry from Dunkirk, France, was stopped and searched.

Revenue said this was a result of risk profiling and with the assistance of Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner and detector dog Jasper.



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