File for DPP after €18 thousand worth of cocaine seized in city

Galway Bay fm newsroom - A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions after €18 thousand worth of cocaine was seized in the city.

The discovery was made following the search of a house in the Headford Road area by the Divisional Drugs Unit on Thursday afternoon.

A number of bags of suspected cocaine - with a value totalling €18 thousand - were seized and a man in his mid-20s was arrested at the scene.

He was taken to the Garda Regional Headquarters in Renmore but has since been released without charge.

A file is now being prepared for the DPP and investigations are ongoing.