{"id":614630,"date":"2026-09-04T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614630\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:40:10","slug":"operation-involving-60-gardai-results-in-seizure-of-drugs-ammunition-and-boat-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/614630\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation involving 60 garda\u00ed results in seizure of drugs, ammunition and boat engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LARGE-SCALE GARDA operation in Dublin this morning resulted in the seizure of a boat engine, shotgun cartridges, two vehicles and various suspected drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile phones and a sum of \u20ac5,000 in cash were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>The policing operation saw the searches of 10 homes in the areas of\u00a0Clondalkin, Ballyfermot, Ronanstown, Terenure and Tallaght.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 60 garda\u00ed took part in the operation, which was conducted with the objective of seizing evidence relating to the discharge of a firearm in St Killian\u2019s Park in Clondalkin on 4 August, in which a man in his 40s was injured.<\/p>\n<p>A Yamaha motorbike, a Yamaha boat engine and a Ford transit van were seized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suspected cocaine valued at \u20ac18,000, cannabis herb valued at \u20ac15,860, and cannabis resin valued at \u20ac1,190 were also seized under warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs and ammunition seized will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LARGE-SCALE GARDA operation in Dublin this morning resulted in the seizure of a boat engine, shotgun cartridges,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,53621,1115,57646,615,12703,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-614630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-clondalkin","tag-crime","tag-drug-seizure","tag-dublin","tag-firearms","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614630","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=614630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}