Man facing drug supply charges
A man is due in court in connection with the largest seizure of the drug ecstasy ever made by police in Northern Ireland.
The 27-year-old was charged following the discovery of 300,000 ecstasy tablets and a kilogram of cannabis in Belfast port in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The drugs, with a street value of around £3m, were in a lorry searched by Drug Squad officers after it came off a ferry from the Scottish port of Stranraer.
A man was arrested at the scene.
The man due before Belfast Magistrates' Court has been charged with possession and possession with intent to supply both Class A and Class B drugs.
The seizure was the culmination of a months long operation by the Drug Squad who revealed they believed the drugs had originated from either Holland or Belgium.
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