Gardaí find large cannabis grow house in morning raid

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Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with a raid on a cannabis grow house in the West on Sunday morning.

Gardaí in Roscommon seized €200,000 worth of cannabis plants following the discovery of a grow house at Ballinlough yesterday.

At approximately 11am on Sunday, a search operation was conducted by the Roscommon / Longford Divisional Drugs Unit, with assistance from Gardaí at Castlerea Garda Station.

During the search operation at a premises in Ballinlough, approximately 250 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity were discovered.

The estimated potential street value of these drugs is €200,000 Gardaí have said.

Two men, one in his 40s and another in his 50s, were arrested and detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at a Garda station in Co. Roscommon.

Both men have since been charged and are due to appear before Mullingar District Court this morning at 10:30am.