{"id":399290,"date":"2026-04-15T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:52:11","slug":"two-held-as-drugs-worth-over-e540000-seized-in-co-offaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399290\/","title":{"rendered":"Two held as drugs worth over \u20ac540,000 seized in Co Offaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been arrested after drugs worth more than \u20ac545,000 were seized in Co Offaly yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed recovered 7.5kg of cocaine worth around \u20ac525,000, along with 1kg of cannabis and ecstasy, worth \u20ac24,000, during the course of a search operation in Tullamore as part of Operation Tara.<\/p>\n<p>A man and a woman, both aged in the 40s, were arrested and are being held at a garda station in Co Offaly.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs will be sent for Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested after drugs worth more than \u20ac545,000 were seized in Co Offaly yesterday. Garda\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-399290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/399290","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=399290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}