17/07/2013

Two Arrested Over Robbery Of Cheques Worth €1.1m

Two men have been arrested in Dublin in connection with the theft of cheques with a value of €1.1 million.

It is understood that as a man used a night safe at a bank in Tallaght just after a midnight two men robbed him of the document bag he was about to lodge.

Gardaí say that it is thought on of the men was armed with a firearm and the second man had a hammer.

However, following a gardaí search two men, believed to be in the 20s and local, were arrested and the document bag recovered.

(MH/CD)

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