{"id":373267,"date":"2026-03-30T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373267\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:55:08","slug":"contraband-worth-more-than-e654k-seized-by-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373267\/","title":{"rendered":"Contraband worth more than \u20ac654k seized by Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contraband, with an estimated value of more than \u20ac654,000, has been seized in Dublin, the midlands and at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford.<\/p>\n<p>The detections were made as part of risk profiling and intelligence led operations in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>The seizures include 26kg of herbal cannabis with an estimated value of over \u20ac523,000.<\/p>\n<p>Around 21.5kg of this was recovered at Dublin Airport last Friday, concealed in vacuum packed packages within the baggage of a passenger who had disembarked a flight from Malaga.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s was arrested.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image shows a table displaying several clear plastic bags containing herbal cannabis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/002423fc-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHerbal cannabis was seized at Dublin Airport<\/p>\n<p>Other seizures include 282 counterfeit items worth more than \u20ac90,3000, over \u20ac13,400 worth of butane honey oil, tobacco products worth around \u20ac8,200, and just over a kilogramme of cannabis resin with an estimated value of over \u20ac6,800.<\/p>\n<p>Over 309 litres of alcohol worth around \u20ac4,200 was also discovered, along with drugs with an estimated value of more than \u20ac7,700.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-nine accessories for weapons were seized.<\/p>\n<p>The herbal cannabis and illicit drugs seizures were made with the help of detector dogs Ciara, Molly and Jasper.<\/p>\n<p>The parcels originated in the US, UK, Canada, Thailand, France and the Netherlands, and were destined for various addresses around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into all of the seizures are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contraband, with an estimated value of more than \u20ac654,000, has been seized in Dublin, the midlands and at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-373267","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\/373267","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=373267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}