{"id":385275,"date":"2026-04-06T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385275\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:08:08","slug":"e830000-worth-of-drugs-seized-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385275\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac830,000 worth of drugs seized in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About \u20ac830,000 worth of suspected controlled drugs has been seized in Lucan, Co Dublin, as part of ongoing investigations under Operation Tara.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed from the Ronanstown Drugs Unit searched a premises in Lucan on 5 April, recovering one kilo of suspected ketamine with an estimated value of \u20ac60,000.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 20s was arrested and is being detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at a Garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up searches carried out on 6 April led to the seizure of a further 13 kilos of suspected ketamine, valued at approximately \u20ac770,000.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs are due to be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Tara targets drug trafficking networks at international, national and local levels, including those involved in the importation, distribution and sale of controlled drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About \u20ac830,000 worth of suspected controlled drugs has been seized in Lucan, Co Dublin, as part of ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-385275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385275","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=385275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}