Gardaí seize 200 kg of cannabis resin at Navan warehouse; four detained
Gardaí raided a warehouse at Navan, County Meath, recovering more than 200 kilos of cannabis resin valued at €2.5 million. Four people were detained, including two men from Belfast, and two men were arrested.
Gardaí raided a warehouse at Navan in County Meath on Thursday 25 April 2002 and
recovered two hundred kilos of cannabis resin.[1]A later report put the haul at
over 200 kilos with an estimated value of €2.5 million (£1.5 million).[1][2]
Two men from Belfast were among four people detained in the warehouse search.[1]Two men were arrested over the seizure.[1][2]
Cross-border case
The Navan raid was reported alongside a separate cannabis seizure in Belfast on the
same day, in which a man and a woman were arrested.[1] That Belfast find is
recorded as its own report.
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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Gardaí seized cannabis valued at €800–€1,000 from a car on the N17 at Gortnagunned near Milltown and arrested two drivers for drug-impaired driving. The stops on 2 November 2026 were part of the multi-agency Operation Intercept day of action in east Galway.
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