{"id":281658,"date":"2026-01-13T03:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281658\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:17:16","slug":"three-held-as-knife-drugs-worth-e166k-seized-in-kerry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281658\/","title":{"rendered":"Three held as knife, drugs worth \u20ac166k seized in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been arrested following the seizure of a firearm, a knife, and drugs worth over \u20ac166,000 in Co Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed stopped and searched a vehicle in Killarney at around 2.50pm, where a knife and over \u20ac5,000 worth of cannabis were seized.<\/p>\n<p>A number of electrical devices of evidential value were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>Two men in their 30s and 40s, and a woman in her 30s, were arrested and are being held at separate garda stations in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed carried out a number of follow-up searches in Killarney, where a suspected firearm, over \u20ac160,000 in suspected cannabis and LSD, and other drug-related paraphernalia were also seized.<\/p>\n<p>The searches were made as part of Operation Tara, which aims to disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking networks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drugs seized by garda\u00ed in Kerry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0023b969-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nCannabis seized by garda\u00ed in follow-up searches in Killarney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been arrested following the seizure of a firearm, a knife, and drugs worth over \u20ac166,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-281658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115885627387998183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281658","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=281658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}