Spate of robberies

Spate of robberies

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Neill O’Neill

GARDAÍ in Mayo are looking for help after a series of robberies in the county last weekend. A chemist shop in Charlestown was broken into between the hours of 3.30am and 7am on Saturday morning last and a safe containing cash and a quantity of controlled drugs was stolen. The safe was later recovered by Gardaí on a bog road in Loughglynn near Castlerea, but the contents were missing. The intruders gained entry by forcing open a window at the rear of the premises.
Meanwhile, a couple who were away for the weekend attending their daughter’s wedding returned on Sunday to discover that their house had been burgled. The house, which is on the Ballinrobe Road in Westport was broken into sometime between noon last Thursday and 3pm on Sunday. Again the intruders gained entry by prising a rear window open and made off with a quantity of cash, much of which was coinage. Gardaí in Westport can be contacted on 098 25555 if anyone knows anything about this crime.
In north Mayo there were also some houses robbed last week. A unoccupied private residence at Ballyvicmaha, Castlehill, Ballina had a downstairs window forced open between 8.30pm on Saturday last and 1.30am on Sunday morning. Very little was taken in the raid. Meanwhile, another house nearby at Mullenmore, Crossmolina, was broken into, again through a window, and a small amount of change was stolen.
Anyone with information on any of these crimes is urged to contact their local Garda station.