{"id":607904,"date":"2026-08-29T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:28:09","slug":"man-40s-arrested-after-e190k-worth-of-drugs-including-crystal-meth-and-oxycodone-seized-in-tallaght","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607904\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (40s) arrested after \u20ac190k worth of drugs including crystal meth and oxycodone seized in Tallaght"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN IN his 40s has been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth \u20ac190,000.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed stopped a vehicle travelling on the N7 on Thursday and discovered a large quantity of cocaine worth\u00a0\u20ac100,000. The driver was arrested and remains in custody at Tallaght garda station under the provisions of drug trafficking legislation.<\/p>\n<p>In follow-up searches at a residential address in the Old Bawn area of Tallaght, garda\u00ed recovered more cocaine (valued at \u20ac29,890), crystal methamphetamine (\u20ac47,250), cannabis (\u20ac9,520) and oxycodone (\u20ac7,000).<\/p>\n<p>Cash totalling \u20ac15,320 was also seized.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was part of Operation Tara which targets the sale and supply of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>All of the drugs seized are subject to analysis by Forensic Science Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN IN his 40s has been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth \u20ac190,000. Garda\u00ed stopped a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59227,11314,23737,257492,257493,424,23738,615,61,60,43,13356],"class_list":["post-607904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arrest","tag-cannabis","tag-cocaine","tag-crystal-methamphetamine","tag-drug-trafficking-legislation","tag-drugs","tag-drugs-seizure","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tallaght"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607904","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=607904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}