{"id":433490,"date":"2026-05-05T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:27:09","slug":"two-held-after-guns-replica-grenade-seized-in-wicklow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433490\/","title":{"rendered":"Two held after guns, replica grenade seized in Wicklow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been arrested following the seizure of guns, ammunition and a replica grenade in Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>A search operation was carried out at a property in Baltinglass yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, garda\u00ed discovered a number of firearms, including two semi-automatic pistols, along with ammunition and the replica grenade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a photo of a gun and ammunition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/002451a5-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA man and a woman were arrested at the scene<\/p>\n<p>A cordon was put in place around the property and the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service attended the scene, which was later declared safe.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s and a woman, aged in her late 20s, were arrested at the scene and are being held at a garda station in Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>The firearms have been sent for further technical and ballistic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested following the seizure of guns, ammunition and a replica grenade in Co Wicklow.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-433490","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\/433490","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=433490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}