{"id":148827,"date":"2025-11-19T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148827\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:44:06","slug":"garda-arrested-in-connection-with-missing-e100k-drug-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148827\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda arrested in connection with missing \u20ac100k drug haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A garda has been arrested by officers investigating the disappearance of a large quantity of drugs from a garda station last year.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began after garda\u00ed in the east of the country seized over \u20ac100,000 worth of drugs and arrested a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>However, when detectives went to put the exhibits to the suspect as part of the interview process, they discovered the drugs had gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>They have never been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Eastern Region supported by the garda anti-corruption unit commenced a criminal investigation into the missing drugs and arrested a serving garda this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He is being detained under organised crime legislation and can be questioned for up to seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is also focused on the activities of criminal gangs in the east and southeast of the country.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson confirmed that a serving garda has been arrested and is currently in custody as part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A garda has been arrested by officers investigating the disappearance of a large quantity of drugs from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-148827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148827","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=148827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}