{"id":344707,"date":"2026-03-13T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344707\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:45:09","slug":"live-man-arrested-following-seizure-of-cash-and-drugs-in-van-stopped-on-limerick-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344707\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Man arrested following seizure of cash and drugs in van stopped on Limerick motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested by gardai following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">significant drugs seizure<\/a> on the M7 motorway, close to Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed from Nenagh garda station say they initially responded to a report of a van which was stopped on the M7 in the Birdhill area on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They say enquiries were carried out and a subsequent search of the vehicle resulted in the seizure of a significant quantity of cash and suspected cannabis, both of which were concealed in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected drugs have an estimated value of \u20ac280,000 while the cash totalled \u20ac20,000. Gardai say a small quantity of cocaine was also seized.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/2037929\/clare-syndicate-wins-50-000-prize-on-national-lottery-scratch-card-purchased-in-limerick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clare syndicate wins \u20ac50,000 prize on National Lottery scratch card purchased in Limerick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson confirmed all of the drugs seized will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis. It&#8217;s understood enquiries are also being made to establish where the cash came from.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A male in his 30s was arrested and conveyed to a garda station in County Tipperary. He is currently being detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>No further information has been disclosed publicly and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested by gardai following a significant drugs seizure on the M7 motorway, close to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,106418,42,1396,10143,43,9123,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-344707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-birdhill","tag-headlines","tag-limerick","tag-m7","tag-news","tag-tipperary","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344707","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=344707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}