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Gardai probing deadly Drogheda feud targeting 78 drug dealers as investigators have assets of criminals in their sights
Updated: 10:59, 5 Jul 2021
GARDAI probing the deadly Drogheda feud are now targeting 78 drug dealers.
And the Irish Sun can reveal how investigators also have the assets of the criminals - including luxury cars and bags of cash - in their sights.
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Investigators also have the assets of the criminals - including luxury cars and bags of cash - in their sights
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Chief Supt Christy ManganCredit: Crispin Rodwell - The Sun Dublin
Those targeted include associates of crime boss Cornelius Price, gangland target Owen Maguire’s pals, associates of slain hitman Robbie Lawlor and teenaged gangland associates of tragic youngster Keane Mulready-Woods.
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Chief Supt Christy Mangan says that drug intimidation will be dealt with head on as the gardai remain determined to protect families in the mid Louth area.
Addressing the Joint Policing meeting, he said that the drug feud in Drogheda had expanded into Ardee and Dunleer, but that had been tackled with good meetings with community reps to try and resolve issues.
In terms of families being intimidated if a member has a drugs debt or other issue, he said that they could only tackle issues if they were reported to the gardai. People can give those details in any way, as long as we hear about it. We want to help dig people out of a hole they find themselves in. Sometimes it s a case of sitting down and talking to a family who have to deal with thugs and criminals, he said.
There was a lot said, a lot not said, but perhaps the words of the town s inspirational mayor in the hours after a peace march last January against violence and drug dealing summed it up - Saturday was not the end, Saturday was just the beginning.
Thousands took to the streets of Drogheda to give a clear signal to those dragging its name through the mud and leaving communities in fear, that their days were numbered.
To those enforcing misery on the people of the town, Mayor Paul Bell remarked, go and go now.
A young man had been killed in the most horrific way and that would change our destiny. Today is a special moment and one that changes will be born from, the mayor added.