{"id":519435,"date":"2026-06-05T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:59:14","slug":"man-20s-arrested-after-e3m-seizure-of-gelato-branded-cannabis-at-rosslare-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519435\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20s) arrested after \u20ac3m seizure of \u2018Gelato\u2019 branded cannabis at Rosslare \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/revenue-commissioners\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/revenue-commissioners\/\">Revenue<\/a> officers discovered nearly \u20ac3 million worth of cannabis products during a search at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rosslare\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rosslare\/\">Rosslare<\/a> Europort on Thursday. A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with the seizure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A truck which arrived in Rosslare on a ferry from Dunkirk in France was identified by routine profiling and was stopped at the customs checkpoint at the port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 20s was arrested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> and was detained under drug-trafficking legislation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wexford\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wexford\/\">Co Wexford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An X-ray scanner operated by Revenue at the port identified the large quantity of illegal drugs concealed inside the regular load of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The load was made up of 145kg of herbal cannabis \u2013 some of which carried \u2018Gelato\u2019 branding \u2013 and about 7.9kg of a substance believed to be cannabis resin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Revenue placed the value of the seized drugs at just under \u20ac2.95 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While Revenue does not disclose what factors into its profiling of loads, it is understood that strange travel patterns, inconsistent paperwork and nervous drivers are among the many factors flagged by both humans and software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Revenue said investigations were \u201congoing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revenue officers discovered nearly \u20ac3 million worth of cannabis products during a search at Rosslare Europort on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1900,18194,7,8],"class_list":["post-519435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-revenue-commissioners","tag-rosslare","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116695503181225046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519435","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=519435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}