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As part of ongoing investigations into the sale and supply of drugs in the region, Gardaí from the Galway Divisional Drugs Unit searched a house in Tuam last week.

CHRISTMAS came early for one young Galway man who escaped a serious criminal conviction despite being found with substantial amounts of cocaine in his possession and facing a charge of having the drug for sale or supply.

“This is his first time in a court and no doubt it will be his last,” is how a defence solicitor summed up his client who appeared before Judge John King at Galway District Court on a charge of possessing cocaine.

A MAN who faces charges of being in possession of two sawn-off shotguns and a cocaine press had his case sent forward to the Circuit Criminal Court in Galway, when he came before Judge James Faughnan at Ballinasloe District Court.

A Galway District Court Judge has said she would like to set up a system which would allow some of the contributions made to the Court’s poor box go towards assisting those with addiction issues.

A young apprentice electrician who has a desire to travel pleaded to avoid a criminal drugs conviction on his record as such a record would remain with him for many years.

Gardaí have seized over €165,000 cannabis and cocaine and arrested a man following searches in Galway and Westmeath yesterday evening (Wednesday).

As part of ongoing investigations targeting organised criminal activity in County Galway, Gardaí arrested three women and seized six improvised explosive devices, €20,000 worth of cocaine and €9,000 worth of cannabis during a search of a residential property at Menlough, Ballinasloe, Co Galway on Sunday.

Three men have been arrested by Galway Divisional Drug Squad in Doughiska, with a large quantity of hidden cocaine found nearby, including machinery for packaging drugs on an industrial scale.