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GARDAI are seeking information on a burglary and criminal damage incidents in town over the past week. Between Saturday evening and Monday morning, damage was caused to the front window of a business at the Horan Centre. If anyone saw anything suspicious or people hanging around that area over the […]

AS part of an ongoing investigation into the sale and supply of drugs in the South Kerry area, Gardaí have arrested a man in his 30s and seized approximately €5,000 worth of suspected cocaine over €13,000 in cash. Shortly after 5.30pm on Thursday, Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit executed […]

AN Garda Siochana at Tralee Garda Station commenced a programme for Transition Year students on Friday. It will be attended for four Fridays in November by students from Tralee based schools, Mercy Mounthawk and Presentation Secondary School and schools from around Kerry including Tarbert Comprehensive, St Brendan’s Killarney, Presentation Secondary […]

Gardaí have arrested a man in his late teens and seized approximately €9100 worth of suspected cannabis and counterfeit cash in Caherciveen, on Monday, October 22. Shortly before 11am, whilst patrolling Main Street in Caherciveen, Gardaí stopped and searched a man. He was found to be in possession of approximately […]

GARDAí have seized approximately €50,000 worth of suspected cannabis plants and cannabis herb following a search at a house in Dingle, Co Kerry on Thursday. At approximately 10pm, Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit in Kerry executed a search warrant at a house in Dingle. During the course of the […]

AN Garda Síochána in Kerry and all over the country will conduct a national speed enforcement operation “Slow Down”, supported by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and other stakeholders, for a 24 hour period from 7am on Friday to 7am on Saturday. The objective is to reduce the number of […]

GARDAI are asking parents to park responsibly when dropping their children to school and say they will be clamping down on illegal behaviour at Tralee schools. Speaking on Radio Kerry’s ‘Talkabout’ show on Monday, Garda Cathy Murphy said they regularly receive complaints about parents parking on double yellow lines and […]

GARDAI are asking for the public’s help after items were stolen from a truck early on Friday morning last in the town centre. The delivery truck was parked in Milk Market Lane and the driver made a delivery at about 6am. When he came back his laptop and mobile phone […]

THERE has been an increase in all areas of crime in Kerry in the first nine months of this year, with the number of assaults up significantly. The latest figures were revealed at the Joint Policing Committee meeting in Cahersiveen on Friday. There were modest increases in Property Crime (2%) […]

GARDAI have seized approximately €9,000 worth of suspected cannabis plants following a search at a house in Killorglin, Co. Kerry on Monday night. Gardaí from the Divisional Drugs Unit executed a search warrant at the house at approximately 8:30pm and discovered a grow house which contained 12 mature cannabis plants (pending analysis). […]

GARDAI are investigating burglaries and criminal damage incidents in Tralee over the past week. On Monday, October 1, a home was broken into in the Marina apartments area and cash was stolen. Also, in High Street between 9pm on Friday, October 5 and 9am on Saturday, October 6, a building […]

GARDAI have arrested a man in his 20s following a burglary at a pub in Knockanure, Moyvane, in the early hours of this morning. Shortly before 4am Gardaí received a report of a burglary that had just occurred in Knockanure. Gardaí carried out a patrol of the area and a […]

GARDAI in Tralee are appealing to the public for information after a number of thefts and break-ins to businesses and cars in the Tralee area over the past few weeks. Last Wednesday, September 26, there was a break-in at Fone Dealz on Castle Street at about 3.40am. The front door was […]

GARDAI are appealing for witnesses or information into an alleged abduction of a young man in Tralee on last Monday night. At about 7.15pm, the young man was taken in a car from John Joe Sheehy Road against his will in a white Ford Estate by two men who were […]

THE ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign, which was launched in July, has led to an increase of 10% in reports on anti-social behaviour incidents in Tralee, leading to an additional 11 arrests, 10 prosecutions and 2 house searches in the first eight weeks. The first set of figures has been released […]

GARDAI are investigating after a break-in at Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre in the early hours of Monday morning. A male was seen in the area wearing dark grey clothing and gardaí are asking if anyone saw vehicles or vans parked up in the Wetlands area from midnight to 1am to […]

GARDAÍ in the Southern Region are reminding people to ‘Park Smart’ as recent figures show that there have been almost 170 thefts from vehicle incidents in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick for the month of August. This is an increase of approximately 90 incidents on the previous month. There is […]

GARDAI are appealing for information after a burglary in the Milltown area last week. On Monday, September 10, between 8.15am and 8pm, a white transit van with a Northern Ireland registration beginning with SHZ, was seen in the Laharn  area of Milltown and the vehicle is a point of interest […]

GARDAI are appealing for information after a vehicle carrying a trailer jack-knifed and caused thousands of euro worth of damage on the Tralee-Castlemaine Road. A black Toyota Land Cruiser with a trailer attached was transporting a red quad bike on the road to Castlemaine at about 6pm on Thursday, August […]

GARDAI are warning people heading to Listowel Races to be vigilant when it comes to accepting €50 notes. They have reliable information suggesting a large quantity of good quality counterfeit €50 notes could be in circulation at the racecourse. Gardaí say that with the racecourse so busy and money changing […]

AN Garda Síochána is appealing to cyclists to take extra precautions in keeping their bicycles safe by locking them in the most secure way possible, as new figures show 139 bikes were stolen in Kerry from January 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018. Over 14,000 bikes have been stolen since […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating an incident where a young boy was injured when he was involved in a collision with a cyclist in the town centre last week. On Wednesday last, the boy aged between 8 and 10 years was with his parents in the Abbeycourt area at about […]

GARDAÍ in Tralee have arrested a man in his 20s and seized cannabis herb and controlled drugs worth approximately €500 on Sunday. At approximately 11pm, Gardaí on patrol stopped a man cycling in the Moyderwell area of Tralee. He was search and found in possession of cannabis herb and controlled […]

GARDAI in Tralee are investigating two separate assaults which happened over the weekend in town. Late on Saturday night/Sunday morning a man was assaulted in the Boherbee area of town. At about 3.15am, he was involved in an argument with a man and a woman and ended up in hospital […]

PEOPLE will have the chance to use the ‘Roll Over Simulator’ when An Garda Síochána and Road Safety Authority (RSA) bring a display and information stand to the small Tesco car park in the town centre between 10am and 6pm on this Saturday. The interactive road safety experience simulator is highly effective in […]

GARDAI are asking parents to take personal responsibility for their children when dropping them into town and collecting them during the Rose of Tralee festival. The gardaí say they are especially going to be tackling anti-social behaviour with the large groups of young teenagers who have been gathering at the […]

GARDAI are investigating the theft of a lawn mower from an estate in town last Friday. It is believed that the robbery took place around 3am at a house in New Marian Park. The red and black petrol lawn mower was also used as a community lawn mower to cut […]

GARDAI are appealing to the public for any information about two burglaries which took place within around an hour each other in the early hours of Monday morning. At about 1.30am, a premises was broken into in Fenit and a sum of cash taken. Then later in Abbeydorney another premises […]

GARDAI in Tralee are warning the public again about scam callers. They have been contacted this week by members of the public who have received calls from people who claim there is something wrong with the Windows programme on their computer. They want people to log onto their computer and […]

GARDAÍ from the Roads Policing Unit in Kerry carried out a number of checkpoints in the Dingle area ‘As Gaeilge’ last week. Garda O’Brien and Garda Grennan translated the Garda operational order into Irish with the aim of promoting Gaeilge and offering a policing service in Irish. The operation last […]