{"id":360311,"date":"2026-03-23T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360311\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:45:08","slug":"gardai-seize-cocaine-and-cannabis-worth-e2-7m-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360311\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed seize cocaine and cannabis worth \u20ac2.7m in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Drugs worth an estimated \u20ac2.75 million have been seized in a home and business premises in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> operation targeting organised crime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is the third large seizure in recent weeks under Operation Tara, which is focused on dismantling drug-trafficking networks throughout the country and their links overseas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As part of the latest investigation the Dublin Crime Response Team searched two properties in the city. They found 38kg of suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of \u20ac2.66 million in a business premises in Coolock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A follow-up search of a residential premises in Finglas uncovered 1kg of cocaine with an estimated value of \u20ac70,000 and 1kg of cannabis with a value of \u20ac20,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men aged in their 20s and 30s were arrested and were being detained on Sunday in a Dublin Garda station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier this month garda\u00ed seized cocaine worth \u20ac5.25 million in searches of vehicles and a business premises in Co Monaghan and two people were arrested. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At the end of February searches of a car and two residential properties in Dublin uncovered cocaine and cannabis worth \u20ac700,000 along with large sums of sterling and euro. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men were also arrested in connection with these finds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed investigations in all cases are continuing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drugs worth an estimated \u20ac2.75 million have been seized in a home and business premises in Dublin as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[615,1346,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-360311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dublin","tag-garda-siochana","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\/360311","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=360311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}