{"id":635313,"date":"2026-09-25T05:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/635313\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:38:13","slug":"four-men-arrested-as-gardai-seize-drugs-valued-at-over-e2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/635313\/","title":{"rendered":"Four men arrested as garda\u00ed seize drugs valued at over \u20ac2m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOUR MEN WERE arrested by garda\u00ed after an operation resulted in the seizure of large quantities of drugs including cocaine, diamorphine and magic mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence-led operation was carried out by garda\u00ed on Wednesday. Regional garda units from the Northwestern, Eastern, and Dublin Metropolitan region collaborated with the national drugs and organised crime bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The four arrested men are aged in their 20s, 40s, and 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said the seized cocaine has an estimated value of \u20ac1.6 million, the diamorphine valued at \u20ac529,000, and a small quantity of magic mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Cash totalling \u20ac34,300 was also seized, as well as a number of vehicles, garda\u00ed said.<\/p>\n<p>Two of these men were charged with drug trafficking and money laundering offences and have appeared before Kilkenny District Court and the Criminal Courts of Justice District Court.<\/p>\n<p>The two other men remain in custody at garda stations in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOUR MEN WERE arrested by garda\u00ed after an operation resulted in the seizure of large quantities of drugs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,23737,1115,57646,61,60,21105,43],"class_list":["post-635313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cocaine","tag-crime","tag-drug-seizure","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-money-laundering","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635313","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=635313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}