{"id":323703,"date":"2026-03-01T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:51:07","slug":"drugs-worth-more-than-e700000-seized-and-two-men-arrested-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323703\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs worth more than \u20ac700,000 seized and two men arrested in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over \u20ac700,000 worth of drugs were seized, and two men were arrested in Dublin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 3.30pm, garda\u00ed attached to the Drugs Unit at Coolock intercepted a car in the Dublin 1 area and recovered cannabis valued at \u20ac100,000.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 20s was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>During follow-up searches at two residential properties in the Dublin 1 area, cannabis valued at \u20ac551,000, cocaine valued at \u20ac70,000 and two sums of cash &#8211; \u00a333,000 and over \u20ac4,000 &#8211; were seized.<\/p>\n<p>A second man in his 30s was also arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Both men are currently detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at a Garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>All drugs seized will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for examination, and investigations are ongoing, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over \u20ac700,000 worth of drugs were seized, and two men were arrested in Dublin on Saturday. Shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-323703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/323703","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=323703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}