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Baldonnel raid: Firearm, ammunition and drugs worth €40,000 seized by gardai on Saturday
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A gun, ammunition and cannabis herb worth an estimated €40,000 has been seized in an organised crime operation in Baldonnel, close to the Kildare/Dublin border.
At approximately 4.30pm on Saturday, April 17, in the course of ongoing investigations targeting persons suspected to be involved in organised crime, personnel attached to the Garda National Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) supported by the Emergency Response Unit intercepted a vehicle in the Baldonnel area of West Dublin.
In the course of a search of the vehicle, one firearm and ammunition was located and seized. During a follow-up search of a premises, cannabis herb with an estimated street value of €40,000 was located and seized.
They are being detained at Naas garda station.
‘Dee Dee’ O’Driscoll has multiple previous convictions, including for bribing a garda, violent disorder and perverting the course of justice.
The 47-year-old criminal is at the centre of a lengthy garda investigation into an extortion campaign in which council workers and contractors were targeted.
Bank accounts to the value of more than €250,000 controlled by O’Driscoll and his close associate David Reilly were frozen by the Criminal Assets Bureau after the High Court was told in October, 2019 that the money was raised through extortion and running protection rackets.
The other gang being probed about Thursday’s huge bust is led by a crack cocaine dealer who was previously arrested in relation to the murder of Dean Johnson (21), an innocent victim of a Clondalkin feud, who was gunned down in 2013.