One side of the feuding gangs in Drogheda has been dealt blow as cannabis worth almost €400k seized at Dublin Airport from a flight from Thailand was destined for the town, we can exclusively reveal.
A female in her 20s was arrested by gardai and Revenue on Monday, March 31, at Dublin Airport after 19kg of herbal cannabis, worth an estimated €380,000 was seized. The arrest and seizure was made as a result of risk profiling.
The cannabis was discovered concealed in vacuum packed packages within baggage belonging to the woman, who had disembarked a flight from Thailand.
The woman is currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at a Dublin Garda Station and investigations are ongoing.
The on-the-run brothers, who head one side of the feuding gangs in the Co Louth town, fled Ireland following the gruesome murder and dismemberment of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods. One of the brothers is now living in Dubai and the other is living in Thailand.
Despite being on the run, gardai suspect the brothers continue to be involved in drug trafficking from their bases overseas to Co Louth.
They cannot be named as they are charged with serious offences. Warrants have been issued for their arrests.
In recent months, the gang, known as the so-called Anti-Maguire faction, have been dealt severe blows with a large number of people currently before the courts on money laundering, organised crime and drugs offences.
The gang is at war with a gang headed by paralysed mob boss Owen Maguire, who was shot a number of times by slain serial killer Robbie Lawlor in July 2018.
During the height of the feud between the two criminal gangs, which escalated in July 2018 after mob boss Owen Maguire was shot several times and left paralysed, there were four murders and more than 100 serious criminal incidents involving petrol bombs, serious assaults, and a kidnapping.
“This drug seizure is the latest blow to the brothers and their gang as at least 15 associates are now before the courts and there have been several large drug seizures and cash seizures in recent months,” a source told The Irish Mirror.
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