Ballyfermot man who sold stolen car on Done Deal is remanded for sentencing

By Brendan Grehan

A BALLYFERMOT man who sold a stolen car for €2,400 after advertising it on Done Deal was remanded for sentencing today by Blanchardstown Court.

The DPP had previously directed summary disposal only on a plea of guilty in Keith Mooney’s case.

Mooney’s solicitor, Simon Fleming, told Judge David McHugh that his client was pleading guilty to the charges.

Mooney, aged 28, with an address at Barnaville Park, Ballyfermot, pleaded guilty to possessing a false instrument: a car registration plate, making gain or causing loss by deception by inducing another into buying a stolen Opel Astra for €2,400 at the car park of Morans Red Cow Hotel, Naas Road, on June 3, 2015, contrary to Section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001.

He also pleaded guilty to handling stolen property, the Opel Astra car at the car park of Morans Red Cow Hotel on the above date.

Garda Seamus Wallace from the Garda Stolen Car Unit in Harcourt Street told the court that on June 3, 2017, Florin Vasile responded to a an ad for a 2007 Opel Astra which was on Done Deal.

He said that Vasile arranged to meet Mooney in the car park of the Red Cow and he purchased the car for €2,400.

Mr Fleming said his client was due before the court on other matters in May and asked Judge McHugh to put the case back to that date for sentencing.

Judge McHugh remanded Mooney on continuing bail to a date at the end of May for sentencing.