{"id":582754,"date":"2026-08-04T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582754\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:52:07","slug":"two-arrested-as-drugs-worth-e8-5m-seized-in-meath-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582754\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested as drugs worth \u20ac8.5m seized in Meath, Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs worth an estimated \u20ac8.5 million have been seized following searches in counties Meath and Louth.<\/p>\n<p>The searches were carried out in a number of locations yesterday, after a car was stopped as part of an intelligence-led investigation in Co Meath.<\/p>\n<p>During their searches, suspected cocaine and cannabis were found by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs have been sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Two men, aged in their 30s and 40s, have been arrested as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drugs worth an estimated \u20ac8.5 million have been seized following searches in counties Meath and Louth. The searches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-582754","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\/582754","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=582754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}