{"id":112679,"date":"2025-10-30T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112679\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:41:12","slug":"truck-driver-with-e2-8m-worth-of-cocaine-hidden-under-lego-toys-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/112679\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver with \u20ac2.8m worth of cocaine hidden under Lego toys jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Criminal Courts of Justice. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/084c2a68-44eb-43e4-8c26-7e1e7650e69d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Criminal Courts of Justice. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A truck driver who drove a lorry which had \u20ac2.8 million worth of cocaine hidden under a legitimate cargo of Lego toys has been jailed for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Offaly man Noel Smullen (58) had a lower level of involvement in the drug importation operation to his co-accused, Killian McNay. McNay (40) of Ardilaun Green, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath was sentenced to seven and a half years earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Criminal Courts of Justice. Stock image A truck driver who drove a lorry which had \u20ac2.8 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-112679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}