{"id":68628,"date":"2025-10-09T03:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68628\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:49:07","slug":"e8-2-million-of-cocaine-and-heroin-seized-in-garda-operation-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/68628\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac8.2 million of cocaine and heroin seized in Garda operation \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed have seized \u20ac8.2 million worth of cocaine and heroin and arrested a man in an operation against an organised drugs gang. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The 110kg of cocaine and 1.5kg of heroin was recovered from two vans seized during the operation. It involved 60 garda\u00ed and search warrants were used on 16 different premises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Cash totalling \u00a338,000 sterling and \u20ac63,000 was also confiscated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A man, aged in his 40s, was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking offences. He was being held under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, at a Garda station in the Dublin Region on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The raids were part of an ongoing investigation into organised criminal activity linked to drug trafficking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The co-ordinated operation took place on Tuesday and Wednesday and was aimed at dismantling a criminal organisation involved in large-scale drug distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">It brings to \u20ac12.5 million the amount of drugs seized under the current operation which includes cocaine worth \u20ac11.85 million. There have been 23 arrests to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have seized \u20ac8.2 million worth of cocaine and heroin and arrested a man in an operation against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-68628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628","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=68628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}