Six people have been arrested following the seizure of drugs at Dublin Airport

Six people have been arrested following the seizure of drugs at Dublin Airport within the past week.A 47-year-old Dutch woman and her teenage son were detained by Customs officers on their arrival from Amsterdam. Both had swallowed pellets of cocaine with an estimated value of €52,500.A 44-year-old Latvian national, who had arrived on a flight from Guyana, via Paris, had swallowed 1kg of cocaine worth €70,000. Nine kilos of cannabis with a street value of €108,000 were seized from a 25-year-old Polish man on a flight from Belgium. The drugs were discovered in his luggage.A 25-year-old Irish man was detained after 39,000 valium tablets were found in his luggage. The man was returning from Bangkok in Thailand. Customs officers estimate the drugs were worth €200,000.A man who arrived on a flight from Amsterdam was arrested after a customs sniffer dog detected drugs. He had three grams of heroin and 40 grams of cannabis in his possession.All five have been charged following questioning by gardaí at Santry and are currently on remand.A 17-year-old was also questioned after 1,248 of the restricted sleeping tablet Limovan was found in his possession on his return from Alicante in Spain. A file is being prepared for the DPP for the Irish Medicines Board.