Galway Bay fm newsroom - A Galway man aged in his 40s, is being in questioned by Gardai in Wicklow today following the discovery of a major grow house in Corr Na Mona, Connemara.
Gardai are carrying out forensic tests at the house located at Farnaght today where over 500 mature cannabis plants were discovered.
The wider investigation began when Gardaí in Wicklow stopped and searched a car at the Sally Gap in the early hours of yesterday morning (6/2/17).
Cannabis Herb with a street value of €2,000 was seized and one man aged in his 40s, and with a county Galway address was arrested.
He is being questioned by Gardai in Wicklow today and is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.
Detectives from the Galway Divisional Drugs Unit are also due to question the man later today.
In follow up searches led by Clifden Gardai at a premises at Farnaght, Corr Na Mona yesterday afternoon, a highly sophisticated grow house was discovered.
The 500 plants, at a mature stage of growth, have an estimated street value of €450,000.
Two kilos of dry cannabis was also discovered packaged and ready for sale with an estimated street value of 50 thousand euro.
The house is sealed off today for a forensic technical examination.
It's understood the plants were removed from the scene last evening.
