{"id":134983,"date":"2025-11-12T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/134983\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:32:09","slug":"live-drugs-and-ammunition-seized-during-major-garda-operation-in-limerick-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/134983\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Drugs and ammunition seized during major garda operation in Limerick town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A SIGNIFICANT quantity of drugs and a shotgun cartridge have been seized by gardai as part of a major crackdown on drug dealing in west Limerick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garda\u00ed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick County Community Engagement Functional Area<\/a>, assisted by Limerick Divisional Crime Units and the Regional Dog Unit conducted an operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in Rathkeale in recent days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the operation, garda\u00ed say they stopped a car in Rathkeale last Friday evening &#8211; November 7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The driver, a male in his 20s, was arrested after he attempted to make good his escape and suspected cocaine to the estimated street value of \u20ac3,500 was seized,&#8221; said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1939839\/sheer-brutality-victim-suffers-fractured-skull-and-scarring-in-broad-daylight-hammer-attack-in-limerick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;Sheer brutality\u2019: Victim suffers fractured skull and scarring in broad daylight hammer attack in Limerick<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further searches were conducted at a domestic residence in Rathkeale on Saturday resulting in the seizure of suspected cocaine with an estimated value of \u20ac56,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shotgun cartridge and a number of other items were also seized during the search.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In total, suspected cocaine to the estimated street value of \u20ac59,500 was seized during the operation. The drugs seized will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man who was arrested on Friday has since been charged and is due to appear before Newcastle West District Court this coming Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gardai say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SIGNIFICANT quantity of drugs and a shotgun cartridge have been seized by gardai as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,1396,43,39830,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-134983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-limerick","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rathkeale","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134983","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=134983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}