{"id":560587,"date":"2026-07-21T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560587\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:49:15","slug":"drugs-and-items-seized-in-midlands-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560587\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs and items seized in Midlands operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contraband worth an estimated value of over 213 thousand euro has been seized in seizures, including the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>29.9kg of cannabis resin valued at more than 179 thousand euro was seized alongside 200 grams of herbal cannabis and other illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p>109 counterfeit items and tobacco products were also confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>The drug seizures followed risk profiling with the assistance of detector dogs Daithi and Ciara, with parcels originating in the USA, India, the UK and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into all the seizures remain ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contraband worth an estimated value of over 213 thousand euro has been seized in seizures, including the Midlands.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-560587","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\/560587","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=560587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}