204 kg of cannabis resin seized at Rosslare Europort; man held
Revenue officers seized 204.04 kg of suspected cannabis resin worth an estimated €1,224,240 from an accompanied freight unit that had disembarked a ferry from France at Rosslare Europort on 27 November 2025. A man in his 40s was arrested and detained while investigations continued.
Revenue officers seized204.04 kg of suspected cannabis resin, with an estimated value of €1,224,240, at Rosslare Europort on 27 November 2025.[1]The drugs were found when an accompanied freight unit that had disembarked a ferry from France was stopped, scanned and searched following routine profiling, with the assistance of Revenue detection dog Mollaidh.[1]
A man in his 40s was arrested by Gardaí and detained for questioning, under section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996, at a Garda station in the South East region.[2][1]Gardaí said the seizure followed a search of a vehicle that had disembarked from a ferry the previous day, and that investigations were ongoing.[2]
Case data
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