Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with a raid on a cannabis grow house in the West on Sunday morning.
Gardaí in Roscommon seized €200,000 worth of cannabis plants following the discovery of a grow house at Ballinlough yesterday.
At approximately 11am on Sunday, a search operation was conducted by the Roscommon / Longford Divisional Drugs Unit, with assistance from Gardaí at Castlerea Garda Station.
During the search operation at a premises in Ballinlough, approximately 250 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity were discovered.
The estimated potential street value of these drugs is €200,000 Gardaí have said.
Two men, one in his 40s and another in his 50s, were arrested and detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at a Garda station in Co. Roscommon.
Both men have since been charged and are due to appear before Mullingar District Court this morning at 10:30am.
