{"id":662438,"date":"2026-08-29T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:00:17","slug":"two-men-arrested-after-drugs-worth-e2-3m-seized-including-20kg-cocaine-and-5000-ecstasy-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/662438\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested after drugs worth \u20ac2.3m seized, including 20kg cocaine and 5,000 ecstasy tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO MEN IN their 50s and 60s have been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth\u00a0\u20ac2.3 million in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed seized around 18kg of cocaine worth around \u20ac1.8 million while the drugs were being handed over in public, and later seized 4kg of cocaine worth \u20ac400,000 from a nearby vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788022814_978_.jpeg\"  alt=\"DCRT 3 28 August 26\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Garda press office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda press office\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788022815_634_.jpeg\"  alt=\"DCRT 4 28 August 26\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Garda press office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda press office\n<\/p>\n<p>The two men were arrested and are currently detained in a garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region under the provisions of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking Act) 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up searches were conducted, where garda\u00ed seized 5,000 MDMA tablets, worth around \u20ac50,000, and four kg of cannabis herb, worth \u20ac56,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788022817_523_.jpeg\"  alt=\"DCRT 2 28 August 26\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n                                Garda press office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda press office\n<\/p>\n<p>In total, the estimated value of the seizures is \u20ac2,306,000.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs seized will be forwarded to Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO MEN IN their 50s and 60s have been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth\u00a0\u20ac2.3 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[26164,22431,9,10,16501,263586,16502,16503,18,13,14,11167,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,263679,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-662438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arrests","tag-blanchardstown","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cannabis","tag-co-dublin","tag-cocaine","tag-drug-seizure","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-gardai","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-mdma","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117179871813315926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662438","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=662438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}