{"id":608487,"date":"2026-08-29T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608487\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:52:12","slug":"two-men-arrested-after-drugs-worth-e2-3m-seized-including-20kg-cocaine-and-5000-ecstasy-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608487\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested after drugs worth \u20ac2.3m seized, including 20kg cocaine and 5,000 ecstasy tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO MEN IN their 50s and 60s have been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth\u00a0\u20ac2.3 million in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed seized around 18kg of cocaine worth around \u20ac1.8 million while the drugs were being handed over in public, and later seized 4kg of cocaine worth \u20ac400,000 from a nearby vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788025930_999_.jpeg\"  alt=\"DCRT 3 28 August 26\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Garda press office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda press office\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788025931_811_.jpeg\"  alt=\"DCRT 4 28 August 26\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Garda press office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda press office\n<\/p>\n<p>The two men were arrested and are currently detained in a garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking Act) 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up searches were conducted, where garda\u00ed seized 5,000 MDMA tablets, worth around \u20ac50,000, and four kg of cannabis herb, worth \u20ac56,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788025932_207_.jpeg\"  alt=\"DCRT 2 28 August 26\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Garda press office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda press office\n<\/p>\n<p>In total, the estimated value of the seizures is \u20ac2,306,000.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs seized will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO MEN IN their 50s and 60s have been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth\u00a0\u20ac2.3 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19826,613,11314,201333,23737,57646,7782,61,60,157216,43],"class_list":["post-608487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arrests","tag-blanchardstown","tag-cannabis","tag-co-dublin","tag-cocaine","tag-drug-seizure","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mdma","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608487","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=608487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}