{"id":58097,"date":"2026-08-05T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meath-and-louth-drugs-worth-e8-5m-seized-during-garda-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:28:02","slug":"meath-and-louth-drugs-worth-e8-5m-seized-during-garda-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meath-and-louth-drugs-worth-e8-5m-seized-during-garda-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Meath and Louth: Drugs worth \u20ac8.5m seized during garda operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Suspected cocaine and cannabis hauls estimated to be worth \u20ac8.5m (\u00a37.3m) in total have been seized by garda\u00ed (Irish police) at locations in counties Meath and Louth. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The intelligence-led operation involved the stopping of a vehicle in County Meath on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow-up searches were then carried out at a number of locations in Meath and Louth which resulted in the seizures, according to a garda statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men aged in their 30s and 40s were arrested<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>and have since been charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are due to appear before Trim District Court later on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgv4qkq5zzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected cocaine and cannabis hauls estimated to be worth \u20ac8.5m (\u00a37.3m) in total have been seized by garda\u00ed (Irish police) at locations in counties Meath and Louth. The intelligence-led operation involved the stopping of a vehicle in County Meath on Monday. Follow-up searches were then carried out at a number of locations in Meath and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[13634,381,11176,12068,16229,6588,1881,1782],"class_list":["post-58097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-8-5m","tag-drugs","tag-garda","tag-louth","tag-meath","tag-operation","tag-seized","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58099,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58097\/revisions\/58099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}