{"id":568344,"date":"2026-07-26T02:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568344\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:20:19","slug":"gardai-seize-almost-e600000-in-drugs-as-man-charged-in-cork-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568344\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed seize almost \u20ac600,000 in drugs as man charged in Cork investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 30s has been charged following the seizure of almost \u20ac600,000 worth of suspected drugs during a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/an-garda-s%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na_topic-5076620.html\">garda operation<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/cork-news\/\">Co Cork<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested after searches carried out by the Cork City Divisional Drugs Unit and the Cork County North East Divisional Drugs Unit on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He has since been charged and is due to appear before a special sitting of Cork District Court at Anglesea Street at approximately 1.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The operation began with a search of a business premises in the Cobh area, before garda\u00ed carried out a number of follow-up searches at a location in Cork city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During the searches, officers seized suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of \u20ac484,000 and suspected cannabis worth approximately \u20ac108,000, bringing the total estimated value of the drugs recovered to \u20ac592,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The seized drugs will now be sent for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The man was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 before being charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed said investigations into the case are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s has been charged following the seizure of almost \u20ac600,000 worth of suspected drugs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27510,45,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-568344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drugs-crisis","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568344","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=568344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}