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The checkpoint was set up on St John's Road West near Heuston Station at 10pm on Saturday,
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Gardai were checking for drink drivers and had asked the driver of the car,
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But when a garda from the Dublin Regional Traffic Department leaned down to issue the driver with instructions on how to use the testing device they detected the distinctive strong aroma of cannabis from the car,
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They then searched the car under the Misuse of Drugs Act and found what gardai described as a "medium sized bag of what appeared to be cannabis",
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The driver,
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Gardai then decided to search the man's house at his address in Prosperous Co Kildare,
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Members of the force from the Dublin Metropolitan Regional Traffic Division, assisted by local gardai from Naas and Clane in Co Kildare, searched the house in the early hours of yesterday.
It was during this search that gardai uncovered a cannabis cultivation operation yielding a quantity of cannabis plant and herb with a potential street value of approximately 60,
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The search also discovered 30,
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"It was a lucky break for gardai who were trying to weed out drunk drivers and ended up stumbling across a lucrative cannabis growing and supply operation," said a source.
The seizure in Prosperous is not the first time a cannabis growing operation has been discovered by accident,
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In April of last year firefighters tackling a blaze in a house on Tyrconnell Street, off Tyrconnell Road in Inchicore, stumbled upon a massive cannabis growing operation when they forced their way into a neighbouring property to make sure nobody in the house had been injured.
Gardai seized 98 cannabis plants, worth just under 100,
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Meanwhile,
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Five people were arrested after the garda operation,
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Two were being detained at Finglas Garda Station last night, and one at Ballymun Garda Station.
Officers from the national drugs unit recovered the drugs, with a street value of around 5.4m, after they intercepted what they believed to be a handover of the shipment in the car park.
It brings the total amount of drugs seized by gardai to more than 16,
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The latest seizure follows a big intelligence gathering operation mounted by the national unit into the activities of a south county Dublin gang with overseas contacts.
