Declan Gallagher.
Detectives from the PSNI’S Organised Crime Branch have charged a 34 year old man arrested in North Belfast yesterday afternoon with dealing in class A drugs cocaine and conspiracy to supply class cocaine.
He is due to appear at Craigavon Magistrates Court today.
The arrest is in connection with the seizure of £225,000 cocaine in the Lisburn area on 22 May this year.
It is understood he s the fourth person charged in relation to this particular seizure in Lisburn.
The decision to prosecute brings to 18 in total the number of people charged in connection with the investigation linked to six drugs seizures in Northern Ireland over the past year worth over £2 million.
Police believe at the pinnacle of the organisation was a man who survived two murder plots at the hands of dissident republicans.
Declan Gallagher, who is originally from Derry but living in Manchester for four years, was described in Derry Magistrates Court last week as the “principal member” of an organised crime gang accused of flooding Northern Ireland with cocaine.
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