{"id":21226,"date":"2025-08-25T01:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21226\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:19:24","slug":"e3m-worth-of-cannabis-seized-from-truck-at-rosslare-port-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21226\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac3m worth of cannabis seized from truck at Rosslare Port \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been arrested at Rosslare Europort in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wexford\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wexford\/\">Wexford<\/a> following the discovery of \u20ac3 million worth of drugs in a truck that had arrived from Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The seizure was made by Revenue officers at the busy port on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said approximately 150.6 kg of suspected herbal cannabis was discovered following a search of the vehicle after it had disembarked from a ferry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The illicit cargo had an estimated value of \u20ac3,012,000, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The suspect, a man in his 50s, was detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 and brought to a Garda station in Co Wexford. Investigations are ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Revenue officials said the drugs were found as a result of routine profiling. The freight unit that had disembarked a ferry from Bilbao, Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThese routine operations are part of Revenue\u2019s ongoing work targeting smuggling and shadow economy activity,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford following the discovery of \u20ac3 million worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[956,79,18,19,17,1900,18194],"class_list":{"0":"post-21226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-revenue-commissioners","14":"tag-rosslare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226","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=21226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}