Two men, aged 21 and 22, together with a 15-year-old boy, were arrested yesterday evening by Gardaí in the Limerick area, as part of Operation Thor.
The three people, of which two are brothers, are understood to be from the Tallaght area of west Co. Dublin and were detained for questioning at Nenagh and Roscrea Garda Stations. The arrests were made following an intelligence-led investigation
Members of the National Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau supported by the Emergency Response Unit, under Operation Thor, stopped two high powered cars, following a rural burglary in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, during which one of the seized high-powered vehicles had been stolen.
The three arrests yesterday bring to 6,600 the number of arrests under Operation Thor since 2015.
Leave a Reply