Longford Gardaí weed out over €12K drugs and cash haul

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.”

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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.

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