A man in his 20s has been arrested after close to \u20ac3m worth of cannabis was seized following a search at Rosslare Europort.<\/p>\n
Revenue officers seized approximately 145kg of suspected herbal cannabis and approximately 7.9 kg of suspected cannabis resin.<\/p>\n
The illicit drugs have an estimated value of over \u20ac2,947,000.<\/p>\n
The cannabis was discovered following routine profiling when an accompanied freight unit disembarked a ferry from Dunkirk, France.<\/p>\n
Revenue’s mobile x-ray scanner led to the discovery of the drugs which were concealed within the load.<\/p>\n
A man, aged in his 20s, was arrested by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
He is being detained at a garda station in Co Wexford.<\/p>\n
The seizure is part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting organised crime groups and the importation, sale and supply of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
If businesses, or members of the public, have any information regarding smuggling, they can contact Revenue in confidence on the Confidential Phone Number 1800 295 295.<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s has been arrested after close to \u20ac3m worth of cannabis was seized following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-483502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483502","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=483502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}