Four people arrested in connection with armed cash-in-transit robbery released without charge

UPDATE: THREE men and one woman who were arrested in connection with an armed cash-in-transit robbery that occurred on Thursday, June 3 outside a post office on the Old County Road, Crumlin, have been released without charge.

The men, two aged in their 20s and one in his 50s, and the woman aged in her 20s, were being detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939, at various Garda Stations in Dublin.

According to Gardai, at approximately 12.15pm, a male armed with what appeared to be a firearm approached an employee transporting a cash box and threatened him on June 3 outside the post office. The male gunman fled the scene with the cash box and got into a Ford Focus car, which subsequently drove at speed in the direction of the Clonard Road.

No injuries were reported during the course of this incident.

A Garda statement said: “The three men and one woman arrested in connection with an armed cash in transit robbery that occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, 3rd June, 2021, outside a post office on the Old County Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12, have all been released without charge and files are now being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

 

“Investigations are ongoing.”