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GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED €160,000 in cash after stopping a car in Athlone on Friday night.
Garda units from the Crime and Drugs Unit stopped and searched the vehicle in the Auburn Villas area of the town at about 9.30pm.
A search found €160,000 cash was located concealed in the vehicle.
A 21-year-old man was arrested at the scene and and was subsequently released without charge.
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There’s nothing to spend money on with everything closed up your honour
@Mattress Dick: except a boob job in Dubai
Whoever the money belongs to is reading this article and saying
“what do ye mean 160k .. It was bang on 200 even”
If covid has shown one useful thing it shows that’s cops out on the streets and roads helps massively rather than them behind a desk with paper work
@Shaun Gallagher: are there figures to back that up, is crime down? They were’nt caught at a covid checkpoint, Garda Manpower is being wasted on Covid that could much better be used elsewhere
Reading this kind of thing a lot lately,, what ever happend to finding a euro down the side of the seat.
@Seymour business: gone since the toll plazas!
They gave him back 159,900 as he was over 5km from home. That showed him that crime never pays
@Padraic McDonagh: Bravo sir! An on the spot fine XD :)
I only took my money out since Bank of Ireland started charging €6 account maintance fee
The one thing I’ve noticed is that guards are more interested in your tax disk than your reasons for travel, where I live it almost feels like a siege.
Bet them stop checks on the M4 by Maynooth haven’t siezed anything…thats because in over a week i haven’t seen them pull one car in, the garda just standing around talking to each other and not evening social distancing either, complete waste of tax payers money
I only took my money out since Bank of Ireland started charging €6 account maintance fee
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