{"id":414728,"date":"2026-04-24T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414728\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:12:15","slug":"breaking-gardai-seize-e125k-worth-of-cocaine-after-raiding-home-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414728\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Gardai seize \u20ac125k worth of cocaine after raiding home in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE MAN has been arrested and a significant quantity of drugs taken off the streets after gardai raided a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed from the Limerick Divisional Drugs unit carried out a search under warrant at a domestic residence in the St Mary&#8217;s Park area of the city this Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said it is part of ongoing investigations into the sale and supply of drugs in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the course of the search, garda\u00ed recovered suspected cocaine to the estimated street value of \u20ac125,000, along with a small quantity of suspected cannabis and prescription tablets,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2068455\/limerick-girl-16-appears-in-court-via-video-link-over-assault-on-scarlett-faulkner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick girl, 16, appears in court, via video-link, over assault on Scarlett Faulkner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested and conveyed to a garda station in Limerick city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is currently being detained under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll drugs seized will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONE MAN has been arrested and a significant quantity of drugs taken off the streets after gardai raided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-414728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick-city","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\/414728","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=414728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}