Post Tagged with: "Crime"

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating burglaries in Tralee over the past week. In Upper Castle Street, between Saturday, April 15 and Sunday, April 16, the storage area of a house was broken into and a number of tools were stolen, including  two Hitachi hammers – a green one and a yellow and […]

GARDAI are investigating damage to cars in Tralee over the weekend. Four cars were broken into in the carpark next to St John’s Church on Saturday night and another was badly damaged. A car parked outside a house in Oakpark was also damaged over the weekend. Anyone who witnessed the incidents or […]

GARDAI are seeking the public’s help after a car was vandalised in Tralee at the weekend. It happened in the St John’s Park area on Saturday night/Sunday morning. The owners came out on Sunday morning to find vandals had smashed the windows and appeared to have jumped all over the […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating three burglaries in town at the weekend. In Caherslee on Saturday, between 3pm and 6pm a house in the Caherslee area was broken into. Nothing was taken in the course of the burglary. Another house in the Caherslee area was broken into between 3.30pm and […]

A MURDER investigation has been launched by gardaí in Listowel into the death of a man in his 70s in Rattoo, near Ballyduff, earlier today. The man died when the car he was driving was in collision with a teleporter this morning. The driver of the teleporter, a man in his 60s, […]

GARDAI in Kerry are warning the public about an email phishing scam after a woman in the county was conned out of €2,000. The email purports to be from telecommunications company Eir contacting customers to inform them they are due a refund on their bill. They direct customers to a […]

GARDAI are investigating a number of burglaries around the county over the past week. The Official men’s clothing store on Castle Street was broken into at around 5.30am on Wednesday morning. The front door was forced in and a sum of cash was taken in the burglary. In anyone was in […]

Gardaí are asking for the public’s help after a car was vandalised. The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, in the Mitchel’s Road area of the town. Gardaí are asking anyone who saw anything in the area between 4am and 6am, or anyone driving in that area at that time and saw […]

PEOPLE who work in chain stores around the county are being warned of a scam of which there have been two incidents in Tralee. What happens is a person buys an item in one store and later goes into another store in the same chain. The person then picks up the […]

GARDAI are looking for the public’s help in relation to a burglary in town last week. On Thursday night last, February 9, there was a burglary at a house at McCowen’s Lane between 11.30pm and 6am. During the incident a 58 inch JVC television was taken. The front door of the house […]

GARDAÍ have seized cannabis plants and cannabis herb with an estimated value of €200,000, pending analysis, at a premises in north Kerry. As part of an on-going operation targeting the illegal sale and supply of controlled drugs in the Kerry area, approximately 100 mature cannabis plants and 6.5 kilos of cannabis […]

THIEVES broke into a shop in north Kerry and stole a batch of lottery scratch cards. The incident happened at a shop at Six Crosses, a few miles from Listowel, between 1am and 1.30am in the early hours of yesterday morning. Listowel Gardaí say a gang of three men stole the scratch […]

  GARDAÍ are looking for information from the public about a burglary, a hit and run and assault incidents which occurred in Tralee recently. On Saturday night, a house in the Monavalley area was broken into between 10.30pm and 4.30am. Gardaí are asking for any witnesses who think they may have […]

GARDAI in Kerry are warning homeowners to be vigilant against bogus callers over the Christmas period. There is an increase in these type of door to door callers at this time of the year. Homeowners are advised that big companies always introduce themselves and have identification. These companies let clients […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating a burglary at a phone shop at Manor West this morning. It happened at around 6am at the Carphone Warehouse at Manor West Retail Park. A quantity of phones was taken during the incident. If anyone saw anything suspicious in the area around this time […]

GARDAI are asking for the public’s assistance in relation to a break-in to a business last week. On Monday, December 5 at 4.20am, a number of people broke into Boyle’s Patio And Stove Centre at Laharn, Tralee. Nothing was taken in the break-in. They were seen on CCTV cameras but […]

GARDAÍ are seeking help from the public after a burglary last Thursday in Stacks Villas. The incident happened between 7.30pm and 8.15pm . The gardai are looking to locate three tins – grey, black and red in colour – which contained a substantial amount of cash and were stolen from the house. […]

GARDAI are again warning homeowners about bogus callers who have robbed people’s homes in Tralee and Killarney. On Friday, October 21 a man posing as a plumber gained access to a woman’s home in the St Anne’s Road area of Killarney on the premise of checking taps. The woman left the […]

GARDAI are asking for the public’s help in relation to an incident of criminal damage at a house in an estate in town at the weekend. Late Saturday night/Sunday morning, at about 1.30am in Fountain Court, there was damage done to a front door. No entry was gained to the house, […]

GARDAI are urging people to be on the lookout for two women claiming to be collecting for charity and calling to the homes of elderly people in Tralee. Gardaí first received a report on August 11 that two women, pretending to be Spanish students were calling to elderly people in […]

GARDAÍ at Killarney will today commence searching and excavating a site at Derrennageeha, Ballaghisheen Pass, Waterville, as part of their ongoing investigation into the abduction and disappearance of Charles Brooke Pickard from White Strand at Castlecove, on  April 26, 1991. The site is located in a Coillte forest off the Waterville/Ballaghisheen road, […]

A FAMILY in Racecourse Heights have been left reeling following an unprovoked early morning attack on their property last week, that was seemingly a case of mistaken identity. The home of Faiq Shaikh and his wife was attacked by unidentified men while they and their two children, between the ages […]

GARDAI are investigating a case where an elderly couple were robbed by two women in the old Gallowsfield area. It’s one of three burglaries over the past few days being investigated by Gardaí. On Thursday, August 11, two women called to the house of the couple claiming to be collecting for charity. One […]

GARDAI are looking for the public ‘s help with two cases of suspected arson in the past two weeks. In Listellick on Tuesday, August 2, a house was damaged in a fire at 7am. Then, just last night (Sunday) in Laccamore, Abbeydorney, another house was damaged by fire. Gardaí are investigating both incidents […]

GARDAI are investigating after separate robberies at Ballybunion and Killorglin over the past week. In the Killorglin incident, a handgun was taken in the robbery. On Monday, August 1 at around 11pm, a woman and her brother discovered a male in a hoodie in their house at Glor na dTonn, Ballybunion. The […]

GARDAI are investigating a case of criminal damage in Tralee after a shop window was broken. The front window was broken at the Mountain Warehouse shop on Abbeycourt on in the early hours of Saturday morning (August 6). If anyone saw anything suspicious please contact Tralee Garda Station on 066-7102300. […]

Gardaí have arrested two men in connection with the Waterville Post Office raid this morning but a third man, remains at large, believed to be in Ardraw, Beaufort. At approx. 11.15am a report was received of an armed robbery having taken place at Waterville Post Office. A quantity of cash was […]

GARDAI are looking  for help in relation to a burglary at a house in Ardfert at the weekend and finding the owners of a lost handbag and diamond rings found on a beach. On Sunday, July 31, between 12.30am and 10am, a house in the Hazel Grove estate.  A number […]

GARDAI carried out three raids on premises in Abbeydorney, Ballyheigue and Listowel over the past number of days where drugs with a street value of €11,000 were seized. The biggest seizure was in a house in Abbeydorney on Monday evening where €5,000 worth of heroin and €5,000 worth of cocaine and/or amphetamines was uncovered. […]

GARDAI are asking for the public’s help after a theft in a Tralee estate and finding the owner of a ring found in town. Light fittings and the bulbs were taken from the gardens outside three separate houses in Connolly Park on Thursday night (July 21) into the early hours of […]