{"id":294362,"date":"2026-02-12T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294362\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:55:09","slug":"irishman-seamus-culleton-held-by-ice-was-allegedly-caught-with-25-mdma-tablets-before-leaving-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294362\/","title":{"rendered":"Irishman Seamus Culleton held by ICE was allegedly caught with 25 MDMA tablets before leaving Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tiffany Smyth and Seamus Culleton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9c1fce76-a05e-44ba-aa38-1660668f5e6c.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)\">Tiffany Smyth and Seamus Culleton<\/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 bench warrant issued in this country in 2009 for the arrest of Irishman Seamus Culleton \u2013 who is currently detained at an ICE facility in the US \u2013 concerned an incident where he was alleged by garda\u00ed to be in possession of 25 ecstasy tablets.<\/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)\">It is understood that one of the charges on which Mr Culleton failed to appear before New Ross District Court alleges he obstructed garda\u00ed by discarding 25 MDMA tablets from his person as garda\u00ed attempted to search him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Tiffany Smyth and Seamus Culleton A bench warrant issued in this country in 2009 for the arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-294362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294362","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=294362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}