GARDA\u00cd HAVE FOUND a handgun with ammunition and a man has been arrested following a search operation in Dublin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The intelligence led seizure occurred on Friday in the Crumlin area of the capital.<\/p>\n
A garda statement said that Serious Crime Units in Coolock and Swords Garda Stations were involved in the operation along with tactical trained officers from the Armed Suppot Unit (ASU).<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said it is part of an ongoing operation targeting organised crime groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the course of the search, a firearm and five rounds of ammunition were seized.<\/p>\n
A male (aged in his 30s) was arrested and is currently detained under the provisions of Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 at a Garda Station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe firearm seized is now subject to technical analysis. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It appears the gun was found inside the home wrapped in a towel with a magazine of approximately four rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDA\u00cd HAVE FOUND a handgun with ammunition and a man has been arrested following a search operation in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,69791,52,18,13,14,13984,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,9757,7,8],"class_list":["post-615285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crumlin","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-garda","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-organised-crime","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117020814369432008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}