{"id":568500,"date":"2026-07-26T05:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568500\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:21:14","slug":"man-30s-charged-after-e592k-worth-of-cocaine-and-cannabis-seized-in-cobh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568500\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) charged after \u20ac592k worth of cocaine and cannabis seized in Cobh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN IN his 30s has been arrested after garda\u00ed seized approximately \u20ac592,000 worth of controlled drugs following a search operation in Co Cork on 23 July 2026.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of these searches, cannabis with an estimated value of \u20ac108,000 and cocaine with an estimated value of \u20ac484,000 were seized.<\/p>\n<p>The searches were carried out at a business premises in Cobh. A number of follow-up searches were carried in another location in Cork city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All drugs seized will be sent for further forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say a man aged in his 30s was arrested in connection with these seizures and detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996 at a garda station in Co Cork.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been charged and is expected to appear before a special sitting of Cork District Court (Anglesea Street) today, Saturday 25 July 2026, at approximately 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN IN his 30s has been arrested after garda\u00ed seized approximately \u20ac592,000 worth of controlled drugs following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70080,23737,46,1115,57646,7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-568500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cobh","tag-cocaine","tag-cork","tag-crime","tag-drug-seizure","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568500","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=568500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}