{"id":475404,"date":"2026-05-31T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:06:09","slug":"three-man-arrested-after-cocaine-and-over-e440k-of-cash-seized-in-co-meath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475404\/","title":{"rendered":"Three man arrested after cocaine and over \u20ac440k of cash seized in Co Meath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been arrested after cocaine and over \u20ac440,000 of cash were seized in Duleek, Co. Meath, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed searched a business premises, where one kilogram of suspected cocaine and over \u20ac220,000 in cash were seized.<\/p>\n<p>Three men in their 50s, 40s, and 20s were arrested and are currently detained under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007 in a Garda Station in the North Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>During follow-up searches, garda\u00ed seized an additional \u20ac220,000, \u00a389,000 sterling and a number of items of evidential value.<\/p>\n<p>The seized drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been arrested after cocaine and over \u20ac440,000 of cash were seized in Duleek, Co. Meath,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-475404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475404","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=475404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}