{"id":536368,"date":"2026-07-06T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:19:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-e1-67m-cannabis-seizure-in-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536368\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after \u20ac1.67m cannabis seizure in Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cannabis worth almost \u20ac1.7m has been seized in  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/\">Cork<\/a> and a man in his 30s has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 83.5kg haul of herbal cannabis, with an estimated street value of \u20ac1.67m,\u00a0was discovered during an intelligence-led operation on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The operation involved the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, the Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit, and Revenue customs officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One male was arrested and is being detained at a Garda station in Co Cork under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> A spokesperson for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said the seized drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Investigations are ongoing,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cannabis worth almost \u20ac1.7m has been seized in Cork and a man in his 30s has been arrested.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27510,79,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-536368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-drugs-crisis","tag-cork-news","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\/536368","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=536368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}