{"id":311506,"date":"2026-02-22T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:46:08","slug":"scramblers-e-scooters-and-drugs-seized-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311506\/","title":{"rendered":"Scramblers, e-scooters and drugs seized in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60 scramblers, e-scooters, quad bikes, along with drugs and weapons, were seized by garda\u00ed during a series of searches in west Dublin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The searches were carried out as part of Operation Meac\u00e1n, targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs and related criminal activity, in Finglas, Cabra and Blanchardstown.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen properties were searched and among the vehicles seized were 29 scramblers, 21 e-scooters and 3 e-bikes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a number of clear bags containing drugs and other items displayed on a table\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023ef11-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a number of machete type weapons in red and black displayed on garda evidence bags\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023ef14-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Drugs worth almost \u20ac21,000 were also seized, including cannabis with an estimate value of \u20ac16,020, along with \u20ac1,000 worth of alprazolam tables and \u20ac3,500 worth of crack cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>A number of weapons were also recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 60 scramblers, e-scooters, quad bikes, along with drugs and weapons, were seized by garda\u00ed during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-311506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311506","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=311506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}