{"id":303139,"date":"2026-02-17T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303139\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:17:11","slug":"engineer-caught-with-e350k-worth-of-cannabis-told-gardai-he-was-acting-as-drug-courier-and-was-due-to-be-paid-e1000-for-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303139\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer caught with \u20ac350k worth of cannabis told gardai he was acting as drug courier and was due to be paid \u20ac1,000 for job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin court. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d212bc8b-d71b-4a8d-aa5e-c7b55db2a4c4.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)\">Dublin court. Stock image<\/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 qualified rail engineer who was caught with nearly \u20ac350,000 worth of cannabis herb after he flew into the country from Bangkok has been jailed for five and a half years.<\/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)\">Cody Ferguson (25), a UK national, was stopped by customs officers at Dublin Airport on August 25, 2025 after he got off a flight from Bangkok via Doha, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin court. Stock image A qualified rail engineer who was caught with nearly \u20ac350,000 worth of cannabis herb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-303139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303139","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=303139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}