Over €45,000 in suspected drugs and cash seized in Sligo this week
Over €45,000 in suspected illegal drugs and cash have been seized by Gardaí in Sligo Town this week in five separate searches. €4,000 worth of suspected cocaine was found after a vehicle was stopped in Ballytivnan on Monday, that evening €5,500 of illegal medication and almost €1,500 worth of suspected…
28 Garda trainees, reserves coming to help out in NW
Twenty-eight extra gardai are coming to the north west to support the policing of Level 5 restrictions. It follows reports earlier this week of more than 70 gardai in the region off work due to illness or exposure to Covid-19. An Garda Siochana has now announced that 140 Garda trainees…
Woman arrested in Sligo Town following serious assault
A woman was arrested in Sligo Town yesterday after a serious assault. The victim was taken to Sligo University Hospital with non life threatening injuries. A woman in her early 20’s entered a business without a face covering at around 6.45pm Saturday evening and was advised about not wearing one.…
Donegal Garda arrest man following discovery of cannabis
Donegal Gardaí arrested a man yesterday following the discovery of cannabis. Members of the Donegal Town Drugs Unit stopped two vehicles after noticing them driving suspiciously. Following a search, cannabis and other items related to the sale of drugs was discovered. One man was arrested and detained at Ballyshannon Garda…
Two arrested following seizure of €105,000 of suspected cocaine
Two people have been arrested in Co. Donegal following the discovery of cocaine worth over €100,000. Gardaí stopped a vehicle in Lifford yesterday at around 3.10pm following an intelligence led operation and found 1.5 kilos of suspected cocaine in plastic bags within a clothes bag in the boot. The men,…
Domestic violence victims suffer between 30 and 35 incidences of abuse before reporting
Divisional Protective Services Units are now operational in every Garda Division in the country. Personnel in the division receive specific training to investigate incidents such as sexual crime, domestic abuse and online child exploitation. Sergeant Suzanne Gilmore is part of the unit in the Sligo/Leitrim Division. She says statistics show…
46 year old woman sentenced to 11 months in prison
A 46 year old woman was sentenced to 11 months in prison at Sligo Circuit Court yesterday She was jailed for stealing €271,000 from elderly and vulnerable people. The sentencing followed a lengthy investigation by the Detective Branch of Sligo Gardaí On the same day, a 31 year old man…