{"id":368906,"date":"2026-03-27T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368906\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:58:08","slug":"two-men-50s-arrested-after-over-e1-5m-of-cannabis-seized-in-co-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/368906\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men (50s) arrested after over \u20ac1.5m of cannabis seized in Co Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested after gardai seized \u20ac1.52 million worth of suspected illegal cannabis in South Dublin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During a search warrant, the Dublin Crime Response Team seized approximately 73 kg of cannabis herb and 10 kg of cannabis resin, with a combined value of approximately \u20ac1.52 million.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs seized are now subject to technical analysis by Forensic Science Ireland (FSI).<\/p>\n<p>Two men in their 50s were arrested in connection with the investigation and are currently detained pursuant to Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1996, at Garda Stations in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the seizures, Acting Assistant Commissioner Dublin Metropolitan Region, Jonathan Roberts said:&#8221;This is yet another example of the relentless efforts by members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na to target criminality that causes the most harm in our communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This seizure of illicit drugs in a specific targeted operation, in addition to a number of other significant seizures in the city centre and across the region in the past number of days demonstrates our commitment to removing harmful drugs from circulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An Garda Sioch\u00e1na remains committed to bringing those willing to engage in the supply of illicit drugs before the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested after gardai seized \u20ac1.52 million worth of suspected illegal cannabis in South Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-368906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368906","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=368906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}