{"id":541437,"date":"2026-07-09T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541437\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:36:11","slug":"drugs-worth-e2m-seized-during-raids-of-five-vape-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541437\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs worth \u20ac2m seized during raids of five vape shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested after garda\u00ed found large quantities of cannabis-infused jellies and cannabis oil-infused vapes with an estimated value of over \u20ac2 million after targeted searches of vape shops around the country.<\/p>\n<p>So-called &#8216;reefer&#8217; cigarettes containing hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) were also discovered during searches of five businesses and two homes in Castlebar, Co Mayo, Drogheda, Co Louth, Longford and Carlow on 2 July and 8 July.<\/p>\n<p>Two men aged in their 30s were arrested in Mayo and Longford and detained under Section 2 of Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at garda stations in the midlands.<\/p>\n<p>The substances will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation as part of Operation Tarainvolved personnel attached to the Garda National Drugs &amp; Organised Crime Bureau, Customs Revenue Service and Drug Units based in the Longford, Mayo, Roscommon, Kildare and Drogheda.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested after garda\u00ed found large quantities of cannabis-infused jellies and cannabis oil-infused vapes with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-541437","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\/541437","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=541437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}