{"id":541844,"date":"2026-07-10T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541844\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:01:11","slug":"two-men-30s-arrested-in-mayo-and-longford-after-e2m-of-drugs-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541844\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men (30s) arrested in Mayo and Longford after \u20ac2m of drugs seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested in Mayo and Longford after \u20ac2 million of drugs were seized.<\/p>\n<p>Searches took place at five businesses and two homes in Castlebar, Longford, Mayo, Roscommon, Kildare and Drogheda on July 2nd and 8th.<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis-infused jellies, cannabis oil-infused vapes and \u2018reefer\u2019 cigarettes containing HHC and THC, with an estimated value in excess of \u20ac2 million, were seized.<\/p>\n<p>Two men in their 30s were arrested in Mayo and Longford and are being detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996, at Garda stations in the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>The seized substances will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested in Mayo and Longford after \u20ac2 million of drugs were seized. Searches took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-541844","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\/541844","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=541844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}