Post Tagged with: "Crime"

OVER €10,000 worth of damage was caused when vandals broke into the Kerry District Grounds in Mounthawk Park in the early hours of Monday morning. The damage was done to machinery and is a setback to the work currently ongoing at a new all weather pitch which is close to completion. “Mindless thugs […]

  GARDAÍ are looking into a number of break-ins  in and around Tralee in the past 10 days. Last Monday, June 8, the Kingdom Care Charity shop at the Mart was broken into at around 4.40am. A rock was  thrown throughout the window and thieves gained access stealing what is […]

  JOHN Mitchels GAA club’s premises on John Joe Sheehy Road was broken into twice last week, with thieves taking alcohol from the bar on both occasions. On Wednesday, June 10, at 4.30am, the window of the premises was broken, as was the window of Walter Lyons furniture shop in […]

  HEARTLESS thieves hit a charity shop for hundreds of euro and caused hundreds more worth of damage during a break-in last night. The Manager at Kingdom Care Charity Shop at the Mart Buildings in Mounthawk, arrived at the shop this morning and was greeted with the awful sight. Around €200 […]

GARDAÍ in Tralee are appealing for information after a young man suffered an unprovoked assault in the early hours of Thursday morning. The 21 year old man needed hospital treatment after he was assaulted in the Castle Street area between 1.30am-2am. An investigation is underway and Gardaí are appealing for […]

GARDAI are investigating break-ins at two multi-storey car parks in town. The car parks at Maine Street and Edward Street were broken into in the early hours of this morning in incidents the Gardaí believe are connected. No arrests have been made thus far. Damage was caused to the parking […]

  GARDAI are investigating a burglary at Hurley Veterinary Hospital on Brewery Road over the bank holiday weekend. The break in occurred between 10pm Sunday night and 9am on Monday morning, May 31/June 1. Entry was gained by smashing a window at the premises. During the burglary, a cash register, which had […]

  GARDAI are investigating the theft of a bike worth €1,500. The bike was taken from the rear of a house in the Killeen, Oakpark area last Friday night/Saturday morning, May 29/30. The make of the bike is ‘Allez’. It is a specialised racing bike, black in colour with red […]

IF you’re heading away for the Bank Holiday Weekend you might want to follow the Gardaí’s advice about home security here. Yesterday, Gardaí launched its Supporting Safer Communities Campaign 2015 and part of it is the Home Security Checklist Challenge to see how secure your home is. Figures from An Garda Síochána […]

  GARDAÍ are investigating thefts of gas cylinders from garage forecourts and businesses in the Tralee area. Thieves are striking at night when the businesses are closed and about 20 cylinders are taken at a time. Gardaí say the orange cylinders have been offered for sale in estates around Tralee. […]

  GARDAÍ are investigating two incidents of vandalism in the town centre at the weekend. In the early hours of Saturday morning, a beer bottle was thrown at the upstairs window of Dan Fitzgerald’s in The Mall. The bottle broke the window fronting onto the Square and the incident is […]

GARDAÍ are asking the public for help in finding a van which was involved in the theft of a stainless steel milk tank in Lixnaw some time ago.   It’s a grey or silver, short-wheel base Ford Transit van, with a homemade white, but rusty, roof rack on top. Gardaí are hoping a […]

  GARDAÍ are warning people to beware of  charity collectors operating without permits after four people went around Tralee last Friday collecting for a seriously ill Cavan girl. Gardaí were alerted by a member of the public, that people were going door to door in local estates asking for money […]

GARDAÍ are appealing for information in relation to the break-in at Causeway Comprehensive last week. A significant amount of cash was taken when three males entered the building and stayed on school grounds from 12.15am to 2.15am in the early hours of Friday morning. Gardaí believe the men are aged in […]

  A NORTH Kerry school was broken into last night, with money taken from a safe. Gardai are investigating the break-in at Causeway Comprehensive which is believed to have occurred at 12.30am. Three men are believed to be involved and a sum of cash was stolen from the safe. CCTV footage is being viewed […]

GARDAI are appealing to businesses and cashiers to be vigilant about people changing large sums of money. Retailers – in Tralee and around the county – have been hit by a spate of people fooling cashiers into handing over hundreds of euro from changing the note denomination of large sums. One is example […]

GARDAI made 21 arrests for public order offences in Killarney over the May Bank Holiday weekend which was down on other years. All in all, the Rally of the Lakes was a great success for businesses with little trouble for the Gardaí with around 20,000 people in town for the event. There […]

  GARDAÍ are looking for the public’s help after the problem of boy racers reared its ugly head over past few weeks. The motorists are leaving their mark on roads in many parts of the county by doing ‘donuts’ in the early hours as well as keeping people awake with […]

  GARDAÍ are once again warning the public about bogus callers going door to door attempting to con people out of money. The warning comes after an elderly man recently handed over a couple of hundred euro to man claiming to be from the ESB. A well-dressed male called to the […]

THERE were three break-ins to vehicles in Tralee on Easter Sunday, two of which occurred very close to the Garda Station. On Easter Sunday between 1pm and 2pm a silver Toyota Hilux was broken into on High Street. The car was parked in front of Tru-Care Dry Cleaners, just yards from the […]

GARDAÍ in north Kerry are investigating two separate allegations of child sexual abuse. It’s believed that in both cases the alleged incidents occurred in recent times and are not historical. The two cases are alleged to have taken place in north Kerry and in one case, the claims have been made against the […]

  GARDAI are looking for witnesses to a dangerous act of criminal damage where a vehicle smashed through the railway barriers in Farranfore. It happened on St Patrick’s Day at 12.30pm. The barriers were down, indicating a train was on the way, but this driver decided to go through taking the barriers […]

GARDAI are looking for witnesses to an assault on a woman which took place on Wednesday last. A woman was attacked by two other females at about 3.20am Wednesday, March 18, in the middle of Causeway village. The woman went to Kerry General Hospital as a precaution but she was not […]

GARDAÍ are investigating a series of burglaries in the Spa Road/Balloonagh area of town on Thursday/Friday, March 5-6. The four break-ins occurred between 9pm and 5am in the morning and mobile phones, medication, small amounts of cash were among the items taken by the thief or thieves. The person(s) entered the houses via unlocked […]

GARDAI are investigating the theft of catalytic converters from a business Clash Industrial Estate. A business in Clash Industrial Estate was broke into and 30 catalytic converters were stolen. The theft occurred overnight, sometime between Wednesday 8:10pm, February 25 and 7:20am, Thursday,  February 26. Gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have […]

A FATHER and son were lucky to escape serious injury or worse, when two large sandbags smashed into the windscreen of their truck and into the top of the cab, while travelling under the overpass on the Tralee/Killarney Road a few miles from Farranfore. The incident occurred at around 2am when a […]

  GARDAÍ have seized €40,000 of cannabis (pending analysis) and arrested a man in his 30s in Ballyroe as part of an on-going intelligence led operation targeting the illegal sale and supply of controlled drugs in the Kerry area. The man arrested is expected to appear before a sitting of Tralee District Court […]

A HIT and run incident occurred in Boherbee last night, where a car, occupied by two people, was repeatedly crashed into by a jeep. No-one was injured in the incident. At around 9pm on Thursday night, a car, with a male in the passenger seat and a female in the driver’s side, […]

GARDAÍ are warning people not to leave expensive items on show when parking up their car, after an incident in Ballyseedy on Sunday where a car was broken into. Between 3.15pm and 4.30pm, a car that had been parked in the car park of Ballyseedy Woods, had its window smashed and was […]

GARDAÍ are investigating two separate burglaries in Tralee last week. A house at St Anne’s Bungalows was broken into between 11.30am on Tuesday, January 27 and 12 noon on Wednesday, January 28. The house was ransacked and a number of small items were taken. Many elderly people live in St Anne’s Bungalows […]