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05 Sept 2025

Suspected cocaine with estimated street value of 9.3 million euro seized

Suspected cocaine with estimated street value of 9.3 million euro seized

A man has been arrested after suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of 9.3 million euro was seized in Co Wexford.

The seizure was made at Rosslare Europort in Co Wexford on Wednesday morning.

Around 133kg of the suspected drug was recovered by Revenue customs officers when a freight unit that had been taken off a ferry at the port was stopped and searched.

A man in his 30s was arrested and taken to a Co Wexford Garda station, where he is being detained under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.

Garda investigations are ongoing.

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