Man arrested over €100K cocaine haul
THIS is the moment a brazen thief smashes his way into a health food restaurant in the early hours of last Friday morning.
CCTV footage shows the robber approach the front door of Chopped on Metges Lane in the centre of Navan, Co Meath, and pauses to check there is nobody around.
He is carrying a large rock which he twice throws at the door, damaging it but not breaking the glass.
He then begins booting the door eventually making a big enough gap to crawl through being careful to avoid cutting his hands on the shattered glass.
Stills from the camera then show him ransacking a drawer, stealing a sum of money and calmly opening the door and making off.
Angry shop staff posted on Facebook saying: “Footage and images from our shop @ choppednavan getting robbed this morning at 4:06am.
“Unfortunately no clear images of his face but a few distinct things about him.
“He walked with a slight limp and headed down Metges Lane and turned left towards The Bull.”
A Garda spokesman said: “Gardaí are investigating a burglary at a commercial premises in Metges Lane on Friday 27th January 2023.”
GARDAI were questioning a suspect last night after detectives seized €100,000 of cocaine in Co Wicklow.
The find, by gardai from the Terenure Drugs unit in south Dublin, was made on Saturday in Arklow.
Gardai say the find was part of an operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the Dublin 6 area.
As well as the cocaine, gardai also seized drugs paraphernalia and a number of mobile phones when they searched a property in the town.
A man in his 50s was arrested at the scene and was being held at Rathmines Garda Station last night.
Under the law, he can be questioned for up to a week.