{"id":28959,"date":"2025-02-13T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28959"},"modified":"2025-02-13T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:40:16","slug":"e5m-worth-of-cocaine-seized-in-kildare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/02\/13\/e5m-worth-of-cocaine-seized-in-kildare\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac5m worth of cocaine seized in Kildare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two men have been arrested following a seizure of \u20ac5m (\u00a34m) worth of cocaine in County Kildare.<\/b><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, garda\u00ed (Irish police) stopped and searched a vehicle and a residential property in the Allenwood area of Kildare and approximately 72kg of cocaine was discovered.<\/p>\n

The men, aged in their 50s and 60s, were arrested in relation to facilitating and enhancing drug distribution activities for an organised crime group.<\/p>\n

They were subsequently charged and are due before Naas District Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Assistant Commissioner Angela Willis of Organised and Serious Crime said it “is another significant seizure of cocaine destined for the Irish market”.<\/p>\n

“An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and our law enforcement partners are committed to targeting those engaged in drug related organised crime that leads to harm, intimidation and violence in our communities nationwide.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two men have been arrested following a seizure of \u20ac5m (\u00a34m) worth of cocaine in County Kildare. On Wednesday, garda\u00ed (Irish police) stopped and searched a vehicle and a residential property in the Allenwood area […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,6],"tags":[10997,1107,10999,5967,10998,10996,5705],"class_list":{"0":"post-28959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-world","10":"tag-allenwood","11":"tag-cocaine","12":"tag-county-kildare","13":"tag-drugs-trade","14":"tag-kildare","15":"tag-naas-district-court","16":"tag-republic-of-ireland","17":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28961,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28959\/revisions\/28961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}