{"id":492502,"date":"2026-06-10T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492502\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:26:08","slug":"man-arrested-as-gun-drugs-and-cash-seized-in-wexford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492502\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested as gun, drugs and cash seized in Wexford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has been arrested following the seizure of a gun, cash and drugs near Enniscorthy, Co Wexford.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a vehicle was observed at a roundabout in Scarawalsh by garda\u00ed on patrol in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>He failed to stop for garda\u00ed and subsequently fled the scene, driving erratically towards Enniscorthy.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the incident, the driver rammed a garda patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>He then attempted to escape on foot but was stopped by garda\u00ed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ammunition seized by garda\u00ed in Wexford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/00247f49-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nRounds of ammunition were also seized<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Wexford General Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed seized the vehicle and found a .32 auto pistol, four rounds of ammunition, around \u20ac40,000 worth of controlled drugs and cash in excess of \u20ac8,000.<\/p>\n<p>Several other weapons were also seized, along with a number of mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was later discharged from hospital and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held at garda station in the division under Section 30 of the Offences Against State Act.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been arrested following the seizure of a gun, cash and drugs near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-492502","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\/492502","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=492502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}