{"id":197602,"date":"2025-11-24T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197602\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:56:12","slug":"breaking-man-charged-and-to-appear-in-court-over-almost-e500k-cocaine-seizure-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197602\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Man charged and to appear in court over almost \u20ac500k cocaine seizure in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> seized over \u20ac490,000 worth of suspected cocaine and arrested a man, aged in his 20s, following an operation in the county over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been charged and is due to appear before Limerick District Court this Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1950501\/army-personnel-drew-weapons-during-shannon-airport-incursion-as-us-navy-plan-spray-painted-court-hears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Army personnel drew weapons during Shannon airport incursion as US navy plan spray painted court hears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of ongoing investigations targeting the sale and supply of controlled drugs, Limerick Divisional Drugs Unit members stopped a van in Hospital on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver and the vehicle were conveyed to a garda station in Limerick city for a search under the Misuse of Drugs Act.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of a search of the vehicle, gardai discovered a concealment of suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of \u20ac493,920. Garda\u00ed also seized \u20ac3,000 in cash and a number of electronic items.<\/p>\n<p>The man was detained under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>A follow-up search was conducted at a residence in Castletroy where a further \u20ac2,075 and a small quantity of cannabis was seized by garda\u00ed. The seized drugs will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI in Limerick seized over \u20ac490,000 worth of suspected cocaine and arrested a man, aged in his 20s,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,889,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,7587,12818,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-197602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-county-limerick","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-limerick-city","21":"tag-limerick-district-court","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115604788571783829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197602","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=197602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}