Post Tagged with: "Crime"

GARDAI are looking for the public’s help after windows were broken at two Tralee pubs/restaurants. The first incident took place on Wednesday, July 20 between 12.30am and 4am at Kirby’s Brogue Inn on Rock Street. Windows were smashed in the front of the premises. The second incident took place at No.4 […]

  A POLISH national, who spent a number of years living and working in Tralee, has been arrested in connection with an international network of paedophiles. The man  was arrested along with 15 other men in Poland suspected to be part of a network of more than 750 paedophiles who shared […]

A CAR which was reported stolen from an estate in Tralee on Sunday has been found at Inch Beach. A woman parked her car at Hawley Park at 12noon on Sunday but when she returned at 5pm the car was gone. Yesterday, the grey Seat Leon hatchback was found abandoned at Inch […]

GARDAI are investigating the theft of a car from an estate in Tralee. The incident occurred yesterday, Sunday, July 17 at Hawley Park. A woman parked her car there at 12noon but when she returned at 5pm the car was gone. The car is a grey Seat Leon hatchback with a […]

GARDAI are investigating two break-ins in Tralee last week, one at a home and the other in a business on Castle Street. On Thursday, July 14, Raja’s Kebab House was broken into between 4.20am and 4pm on Thursday, July 14. The float from the cash register was stolen. Continued below… On […]

GARDAI are asking for the public’s help after assaults in Tralee and Castleisland. A man was assaulted in the Abbey car park at approximately 2.10am last night/this morning. Two men knocked another man to the ground and assaulted him causing head injuries. Gardaí are seeking witnesses to the incident to contact them […]

THE windows of two Tralee and Dingle Railway carriages have been boarded following an attack from vandals. “It is a precaution taken by Kerry County Council after three carriage windows were smashed by vandals over the weekend,” said Kerry tourism officer, John Griffin. Gardaí are currently investigating the incident. The train […]

GARDAI are asking the public for help after cases of vandalism and criminal damage in Tralee at the weekend. Between Friday night at 10pm and Saturday morning at 8.30am, there were four incidents of criminal damage in Princes Street, James Street and Spa Road. There was two windows smashed in […]

GARDAI have arrested two people after an aggravated burglary at an apartment in Tralee at the weekend. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning and Gardaí received a report of a disturbance at the apartment in Edward Court on Edward Street at 1.20am. Two people are in University Hospital Kerry receiving […]

BURGLARIES in Kerry declined sharply in the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2015, according to the latest statistics from Kerry Gardaí. The figures were revealed at the meeting of the Joint Policing Committee at Kerry County Council on Friday, by Kerry Division Chief […]

GARDAI have issued a warning about bogus callers to houses. The warning comes after a homeowner  in Castleisland answered the door to a man asking to get a drink of water for his pregnant wife. The man then entered and stole a sum of money from the house. Continued below…   […]

A GIRL’S bike was stolen from a house in Lee Drive in Ballinorig yesterday and the owner’s mother is looking for help in locating it. The bike (pictured) was taken from the side of the house during the day while the occupants of the home were out. The mother of the […]

GARDAÍ are appealing for information after a mobile home was damaged recently. The incident took place between June 11-12 at Parkboy in Ballyroe when a woman parked her mobile home at a construction site. There was criminal damage done to the mobile home but nothing was taken. Gardaí are asking that if […]

A WARNING was issued by Ballymacelligott Community Alert today, after a white van was seen behaving suspiciously in the area last night. The owner of a house in Ashill was alerted by a neighbour, who, while passing in their car, saw an empty small white van parked at the gateway of the house at […]

GARDAI are calling for the public to be vigilant after people purporting to be collecting cash for a suicide awareness charity, had their monies confiscated by gardaí in Killorglin on Friday. There were reports last week of persons claiming to be from Suicide Aware collecting money in Tralee and Newcastlewest under false pretences. Vigilant […]

GARDAI have issued a warning about a mobile phone scam. People in Kerry have been getting calls or left messages where they can hear a woman screaming asking for help. When the person rings back the number they will be charged a sum of money on their phone bills or people on […]

LAST year there were almost double the amount of burglaries reported to gardai in Tralee than to Killarney station according data in a new infographic by PhoneWatch Ireland. In 2015, there were 141 burglaries in Tralee which was by far the most in the county. The figure amounts to a 22% increase on the […]

GARDAI are asking people to immediately report any suspicious vehicles going up and down bóthríns or in other remote areas, rather than waiting until later to contact them. At the weekend there was a report of suspicious vehicles in the Chute Hall area outside Tralee, but they were reported an hour […]

  GARDAÍ  are advising restaurant staff and other businesses to beware of a scam involving a person making large bookings. A person rang a restaurant in Killarney to make the large booking and sent on a cheque deposit to secure it. He sent on more money than was necessary and asked the restaurant to transfer back the difference – a […]

GARDAÍ are warning people to be vigilant after a spate of burglaries around the county in the past week. The incidents took place in Tralee, Listowel, Moyvane and Killarney and they are appealing for any information which can lead to the apprehension of the offenders. In Tralee on Saturday, February 27, […]

GARDAÍ are looking for the public’s help in relation to burglaries and thefts in the north Kerry area. There were burglaries in Ballybunion and Knocknagoshel and a theft of alloyed wheels in Duagh. A house on Church Road in Ballybunion, was broken into between Thursday, February 18 and Saturday, February 20. It […]

A CAR in Caherslee was broken into and a handbag stolen last week with Gardaí appealing to the public for any information in relation to the incident. The theft occurred on Thursday, February 11 at approximately 5:45pm in Caherslee. The thief smashed the car window and took a handbag that was in the […]

GARDAI say burglars are hitting homes while people are out to work and are looking for cash and jewellery, rather than bigger items. They are warning the public to be vigilant after two homes were hit in the Abbeydorney and Ballymacelligott areas in the past week. On Monday, January 25, […]

GARDAI are warning the public about another phone scam. A woman contacted Tralee Garda Station, saying they were called by a man this morning, with a middle eastern accent, claiming to be from an Irish bank headquarters. The call was made to a landline. The caller had the person’s name and address, which […]

A MAN has been arrested after entering a shop with a hatchet and robbing a sum of money last night. The man threatened staff at the convenience store next to the petrol pumps at Kelliher’s Inver in Rathass at around 8.20pm. The man, aged in his 40s, made off through Rathass cemetery […]

GARDAÍ are warning the public about a phone scam which can clear the credit on your phone or add large amounts to your monthly bill. People around the county are reporting that they received calls from a foreign number starting with 00 247. A person can be heard shouting in […]

GARDAÍ are looking for the public’s help with the regard to separate incidents of arson in the Tralee area last week. In one case a petrol bomb was thrown at a house in Balloonagh Estate according to gardaí. That incident is believed to have taken place Wednesday, January 13 at […]

GARDAÍ are investigating an act of vandalism in the Aldi car park on John Joe Sheehy Road last week. The back window of a car was smashed while the owner of the vehicle was inside shopping. It happened between 9.30am and 10am on Thursday, December 17. Gardaí are asking that […]

THERE were 414 burglaries recorded in Kerry in a year up to the end of September 2015 according to the Central Statistics Office’s (CSO) third Quarterly Household Survey. In the light of these figures, householders are being urged to remain on their guard in the run up to the Christmas period. The advice […]

GARDAÍ are looking for the public’s help after a coach driver was robbed on Saturday morning in Tralee. At about 8.10am, one of the drivers of the Dublin Coach buses was approached by two men in Princes Street, near the Kerry Group buildings. Continued below… The men demanded money from […]