News Gun Drugs Haul Thwarted

The Dutch authorities were then alerted. Dutch and Irish criminals were then monitored agreeing the deal.

The transportation of the weapons to the Republic via Northern Ireland was tracked by customs and the police forces of all three jurisdictions over a four-month period under an investigation codenamed "Operation Bench."

When the weapons reached Belfast on Tuesday, August 27, they were put into a car destined for Dublin with cannabis and heroin valued at $6 million. As the car was driven to Dublin, the authorities in the three jurisdictions moved in and arrested two Irish men - one in Dublin, one in Belfast - and four people, including a Brazilian woman, in the Netherlands.

Most of the guns were new. Dutch authorities said they believed the weapons had only recently come out of a factory where they were manufactured in Austria.

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Nster.com