Stash including cocaine, cannabis and ketamine is found with money and designer goods in searches David Waldron and brother Christopher 'Git' Waldron The massive seizure David Waldron is a ‘major player’ in the drugs business Git Waldron An €9.6 million drug seizure confiscated alongside a stash of €1.1 million in cash is suspected of belonging to associates of drug dealing brothers David and Christopher ‘Git’ Waldron.
The drugs were discovered when gardaí carried out a raid on a home in The Ward in Co Dublin on Friday night. Gardaí said the search was carried out following an intelligence-led operation conducted by the Dublin Crime Team. The massive seizure The drugs found included cocaine, cannabis, ketamine, LSD and MDMA, and will now be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.
Approximately €1.1 million in cash, vehicles and designer goods were also seized in a number of follow-up searches across the Dublin region. Gardaí confirmed that a man aged in his 50s was arrested under section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 in connection with the seizure, and is currently detained at a garda station in Dublin.
David Waldron is a ‘major player’ in the drugs business Sources said the seizure of the drugs and cash will come as a hammer blow to the associates of the Waldron brothers. Commenting on the operation late on Friday, Garda Assistant Commissioner for the Dublin Metropolitan Region, Angela Willis, said: “The seizure of what is a significant quantity of drugs and cash is a major blow to this organised crime group which has been causing so much misery in communities right across the city. “Cash is the lifeblood of crime groups and the seizure of amounts of this scale causes significant disruption.
Gardaí continue to target those that destroy lives through their activities.” The Waldron brothers are well-known drug dealers who have been linked to organised crime in Finglas for years. Earlier this year, the High Court accepted that David Waldron has been “a major player” since 2000 and that his main income was from drug dealing.
He was “heavily involved” in drug dealing and “has had access to large sums of money generated by drug dealing”. The Waldrons took over “a leading role” in sourcing and supplying drugs in Cabra after the murder of Eamon Dunne in April 2010. Git Waldron David Waldron was a close associate of Darren Kearns, Michael Kelly and Daithí Douglas, who were all shot dead in gangland murders between 2011 and 2016.
His former business associate Richard Keogh, who sourced drugs for Waldron in Spain, was shot dead outside Malaga in January 2009. Last November, following a three year legal wrangle, Christopher ‘Git’ Waldron lost his home in Cabra to the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), bringing an end to a three-year legal wrangle. A ladies’ Rolex watch valued at more than €17,000 and two men’s designer watches were also kept by CAB after the proceeds of crime case was settled David is also hurting financially after losing a four-year battle with the Criminal Assets Bureau earlier this year.
The 48-year-old fought the Criminal Assets Bureau over possession of his homes in Dublin, Kildare and in particular a renovated luxury €1.6m mansion, complete with a ‘man den’ in Co Wexford. Last April, Judge Alex Owens found that the properties were all purchased with the proceeds of crime by Waldron, who, he found, is a “major player in the illegal distribution and sale of drugs.
” The judge said he agreed with the Chief Bureau officer that Waldron has been a major player in the distribution and sale of drugs in Dublin since 2000 — and that “this activity has been the mainstay of his means, income and lifestyle during this period.” The judge also concluded that his wife Charlene, who was also named in the proceedings, knew that the purchase of the mansion did not come from legitimate means. She cannot but have been aware of the source of her means and of her husband’s means to engage in these activities, the judge said in his judgement.
Speaking after the case, the Chief Officer of CAB, Detective Chief Inspector Michael Gubbins said it shows why there’s a need for the bureau. “This was an individual who over 20 years amassed well over €3.3 million which they expended on three properties which the Bureau have taken to the High Court and proven their case that these are the proceeds of crime,” he said.
“I think it establishes why the bureau was established and more importantly, it sends a message to the community of the value and the work the Criminal Assets Bureau is doing in their area. “It’s not just the money we are taking off them but the houses of these individuals.” Waldron denied to the court that he was a major criminal and claimed he had decided to go down the country to start a new life away from Dublin between the time of a violent assault he was involved in in 2013 and his imprisonment in 2015.
He had claimed he worked as a handyman in the building industry and also did plastering, block work, carpentry and electrical work..
