Five arrests in Ballina as Operation Thor takes effect

 

FIVE people have been arrested in three separate incidents in the Ballina area over the weekend after a number of planned garda operations took place under Operation Thor.

On Saturday morning at about 1 a.m., two people were arrested and goods were seized in an early morning swoop in the Ballina/Crossmolina area.

The two were arrested in connection with a number of burglaries and were found near the scene of a burglary.

They were brought to Castlebar garda station for questioning and were later released without charge with files to be sent on both to the DPP.

In a separate incident in the early hours of Saturday morning, the divisional drugs unit raided a premises in the Cloonarea area of Ballina and seized a significant quantity of controlled drugs, with an estimated street value of €40,000.

In a further separate incident, a person was arrested in the Ballina area on Saturday morning in relation to criminal damage in the town. He has been charged and is due before Ballina Court today.

Gardai in Ballina have thanked the public for their assistance.