{"id":182852,"date":"2025-12-09T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:04:07","slug":"limerick-gardai-find-viable-device-during-drugs-raid-at-two-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/182852\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick gardai find \u2018viable device\u2019 during drugs raid at two homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRUGS with a street value of more than \u20ac18,000 and a &#8220;viable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">device<\/a>&#8221; were seized as Gardai swooped on two properties in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai attached to the Limerick Division Drugs Unit conducted a major search operation at two homes in Talbot Street in Prospect on the southside this Monday, December 8.<\/p>\n<p>The operation took place over around seven hours, Limerick Live understands.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/business\/1962641\/limerick-firm-lands-major-prize-at-medical-technology-awards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick firm lands major prize at medical technology awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the course of the searches, a\u00a0quantity of drugs and drug paraphernalia was seized.<\/p>\n<p>These will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for examination.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed searched the rear garden of one of the properties and located what they believed to be a viable device.<\/p>\n<p>A cordon was established and neighbouring properties were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>An Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team where requested and they removed an improvised device for further examination.\u00a0Residents were later allowed to return to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are continuing.<\/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":"DRUGS with a street value of more than \u20ac18,000 and a &#8220;viable device&#8221; were seized as Gardai swooped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,1396,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-182852","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-limerick-city","12":"tag-news","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\/182852","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=182852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}