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24/09/2008
Two Held Over Cash Van Robbery
Gardaí have arrested two suspects in connection with an armed raid on a cash-in-transit van on Tuesday.
A member of the Group 4 Securicor staff was injured during the raid in which two shots were fired, and over €18,000 was stolen.
The incident took place outside the Ulster Bank branch near the Coachman's Inn pub on the Old Swords Road.
Two men disguised in Balaclavas, one carrying a hand gun and the other a sawn-off shot gun, threatened the staff before snatching a cash box containing logements from business premises, and escaping on a motorcycle driven by an accomplace.
The bike was later found abandoned at Stockhole lane. It had been fitted with false licence plates.
However, last night, local detectives arrested two suspects in the north of the city and brought them for questioning to Santry and Whitehall garda stations.
Gardaí believe the robberies are connected to gang activity in the north of the city, and may be connected to other robberies in the area.
Meanwhile, in the North, the PSNI are hunting an inept gang who used a bulldozer in a second failed ram-raid on an ATM cash machine.
Taking place early this morning, this was the second such incident in Co Tyrone in less than a fortnight.
The heavy digger was driven into the side of a Spar shop beside Kelly's Inn on the main road west toward Enniskillen, in Garvaghey, outside Ballygawley.
A PSNI spokeswoman later said neither the cash machine nor any money was taken.
Last week a similar digger was used to demolish a wall in nearby Carrickmore in an attempt to steal an ATM machine.
It later emerged that the safe containing the cash for the machine, which police thought had been stolen in that incident, was actually left buried under the rubble.
See: Digger Wrecks Shop In Second Failed ATM Ram-Raid
(DW)
A member of the Group 4 Securicor staff was injured during the raid in which two shots were fired, and over €18,000 was stolen.
The incident took place outside the Ulster Bank branch near the Coachman's Inn pub on the Old Swords Road.
Two men disguised in Balaclavas, one carrying a hand gun and the other a sawn-off shot gun, threatened the staff before snatching a cash box containing logements from business premises, and escaping on a motorcycle driven by an accomplace.
The bike was later found abandoned at Stockhole lane. It had been fitted with false licence plates.
However, last night, local detectives arrested two suspects in the north of the city and brought them for questioning to Santry and Whitehall garda stations.
Gardaí believe the robberies are connected to gang activity in the north of the city, and may be connected to other robberies in the area.
Meanwhile, in the North, the PSNI are hunting an inept gang who used a bulldozer in a second failed ram-raid on an ATM cash machine.
Taking place early this morning, this was the second such incident in Co Tyrone in less than a fortnight.
The heavy digger was driven into the side of a Spar shop beside Kelly's Inn on the main road west toward Enniskillen, in Garvaghey, outside Ballygawley.
A PSNI spokeswoman later said neither the cash machine nor any money was taken.
Last week a similar digger was used to demolish a wall in nearby Carrickmore in an attempt to steal an ATM machine.
It later emerged that the safe containing the cash for the machine, which police thought had been stolen in that incident, was actually left buried under the rubble.
See: Digger Wrecks Shop In Second Failed ATM Ram-Raid
(DW)
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