{"id":66199,"date":"2026-02-12T16:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/irishman-held-by-ice-was-issued-warrant-over-2009-drug-offense-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:55:21","slug":"irishman-held-by-ice-was-issued-warrant-over-2009-drug-offense-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/irishman-held-by-ice-was-issued-warrant-over-2009-drug-offense-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Irishman held by ICE was issued warrant over 2009 drug offense in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Culleton has been held for five months despite having valid work permit and being married to US national<\/p>\n<p>An Irish court apparently issued a warrant for the arrest of the Irish man currently embroiled in controversy with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a>), which has been ramping up detentions and activity around the United States since last year.<\/p>\n<p>Seamus Culleton has spent five months in US custody and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit in a case that has attracted widespread publicity. His lawyer called him a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention\">\u201cmodel immigrant\u201d<\/a> with no criminal record.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/seamus-culleton-ice-detention-ireland-drug-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seamus Culleton has been held for five months despite having valid work permit and being married to US national An Irish court apparently issued a warrant for the arrest of the Irish man currently embroiled in controversy with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been ramping up detentions and activity around the United &#8230; <a title=\"Irishman held by ICE was issued warrant over 2009 drug offense in Ireland\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/irishman-held-by-ice-was-issued-warrant-over-2009-drug-offense-in-ireland\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Irishman held by ICE was issued warrant over 2009 drug offense in Ireland\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}