{"id":110110,"date":"2025-10-09T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110110\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:46:08","slug":"e8-2-million-of-cocaine-and-heroin-seized-in-garda-operation-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110110\/","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":110111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-110110","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-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}