Forty-four illegal bikes and scramblers have been seized during a “day of action” by garda\u00ed in Ballymun, Dublin, yesterday. <\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said they searched 13 homes as part of Operation Meacan, targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs and related criminal activity.<\/p>\n
The vehicles seized included 18 e-scooters, 14 e-bikes, two motorbikes, three Surrons and seven mini quad bikes.<\/p>\n
The operation involved members from the community response, drugs and armed support units as well as Dublin City Council dog wardens.<\/p>\n
Drugs, cash and weapons were also found during the searches and two people were arrested.<\/p>\n
A teenager was arrested after \u20ac9,000 worth of cannabis was found at one property.<\/p>\n
In a separate search, a man in his 20s was arrested after \u20ac2,000 worth of Zopiclone and Alprazolam prescription medicines was discovered at another property.<\/p>\n
Another man in his 20s was also arrested at a checkpoint during the operation for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-four illegal bikes and scramblers have been seized during a “day of action” by garda\u00ed in Ballymun, Dublin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-304148","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\/304148","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=304148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}