{"id":149798,"date":"2025-11-20T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:24:07","slug":"garda-and-five-others-arrested-over-drugs-missing-from-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149798\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda and five others arrested over drugs missing from station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A garda and five other people have been arrested in connection with the removal of \u201ca substantial quantity\u201d of drugs from a garda station.<\/p>\n<p>Detective garda\u00ed, supported by the anti-corruption, drugs and organised crime units, carried out a number of searches and arrests in relation to organised crime within the Eastern Region on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the anti-corruption unit arrested a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na who was detained under organised crime legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed investigating related alleged offences also arrested five people who are not members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.<\/p>\n<p>One man in his 30s and a woman in her 40s were detained at garda stations in the midlands.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 40s remains in custody at a garda station in the east of the country in connection with related offences of alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Two men in their 40s and 50s who were arrested and detained under allegations of drug trafficking have since been released pending files to the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said the incident involved a \u201csubstantial quantity\u201d of controlled substances and investigations are ongoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A garda and five other people have been arrested in connection with the removal of \u201ca substantial quantity\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-149798","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\/149798","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=149798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}