{"id":588607,"date":"2026-08-10T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:20:11","slug":"more-than-e950000-of-crystal-meth-and-cannabis-seized-at-dublin-airport-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588607\/","title":{"rendered":"More than \u20ac950,000 of crystal meth and cannabis seized at Dublin Airport \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Officials seized more than \u20ac950,000 worth of crystal meth and cannabis at Dublin Airport from a passenger\u2019s luggage on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman was arrested after the drugs were discovered vacuum-packed in the baggage of a passenger who had got off a flight from Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Revenue officers, with the help of a detector dog called Charlie, found an estimated 29kg of herbal cannabis and 6kg of crystal methamphetamine in the luggage. The drugs were found in two large suitcases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The cannabis has an estimated value of \u20ac584,000 and the crystal meth is valued at more than \u20ac368,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman, in her 50s, was arrested and was being held at a Dublin Garda station under the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Revenue said investigations were continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">If businesses or members of the public have any information regarding smuggling then they are asked to contact Revenue on confidential phone number 1800 295 295. \u2013 Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials seized more than \u20ac950,000 worth of crystal meth and cannabis at Dublin Airport from a passenger\u2019s luggage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,11900,61,60,43,11522],"class_list":["post-588607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin-airport","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-revenue-commissioners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588607","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=588607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}