{"id":324606,"date":"2026-03-02T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:15:11","slug":"national-gardai-arrest-two-men-in-e700000-drugs-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324606\/","title":{"rendered":"National: Garda\u00ed arrest two men in \u20ac700,000 drugs bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested after a major drugs bust in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Over \u20ac700,000 worth of drugs and sizable quantities of cash were seized in the bust, which was made after Garda\u00ed from the Coolock Drugs Unit intercepted a car in the Dublin 1 area yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac100,000 worth of cannabis was seized, and a man aged in his 20s was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>After two follow-up searches in Dublin 1, cannabis valued at \u20ac551,000 and cocaine worth \u20ac70,000 were seized, as well as \u00a333,000 sterling and over \u20ac4,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>A second man aged in his 30s was also arrested following those discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have been detained at a Garda station in Dublin, and the drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Garda investigations into the matter are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>National: Garda\u00ed arrest two men in \u20ac700,000 drugs bust was last modified:  March 1st, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested after a major drugs bust in Dublin. Over \u20ac700,000 worth of drugs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-324606","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\/324606","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=324606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}