A Vietnamese man (54) has been arrested after gardaí found €500,000 worth of herbal cannabis and plants in three rented houses in Co Meath.
Gardaí said the houses had been converted into cannabis grow houses.
Some 340 plants were growing in a house on the Red Bog Road in Dunshaughlin on Monday evening, while another 450 plants and 10kg of harvested cannabis were discovered in a house in Coolmullen in Drumree yesterday afternoon.
A further 160 plants were being cultivated in a house in Hallstown.
The man was detained at Hallstown and is being held at Kells Garda station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.
