{"id":619829,"date":"2026-08-04T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/619829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:46:21","slug":"two-arrested-as-cannabis-and-cocaine-valued-at-e8-5m-seized-in-meath-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/619829\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested as cannabis and cocaine valued at \u20ac8.5m seized in Meath, Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men have been arrested following the discovery of cocaine and cannabis with an estimated value of \u20ac8.5 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The arrests came after officers from the<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 <\/a>National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau stopped a car in Co Meath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of searches were then carried out at various locations in Co Meath and Co Louth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The men, aged in their 30s and 40s, are being held under Section 50 of Criminal Justice Act 2007, at a Garda station in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda statement said the drugs will be sent to Forensic Science Ireland for analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The seizure was part of Operation Tara, a Garda strategy aimed at tackling drug gangs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested following the discovery of cocaine and cannabis with an estimated value of \u20ac8.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[11663,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-619829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-11663","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-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117037077889523502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619829","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=619829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}