What better alibi for a robber could exist? I was only doing the marketing for the partner. The robbery of the cash van? Pure coincidence. And that goes for the other two fellas with me.
A spate of robberies in Dublin and its suburbs caused a great deal of alarm, largely because it seemed like such a straightforward and simple operation. Wait for the cash van to turn up at the ATM, which it inevitably will, and then pull guns on the delivery men. They, being unarmed, are more than willing to give up the money in order to hold on to their lives.
One particular gang was quite adept at lifting the loot, usually a million or two euros with each haul. What to do? Send the army along with every delivery? Send a convoy of armed gardai? Oh, and by the way, who's to pay for the added security?
As it turned out, there was another way to foil the crooks. Acting on a tip, gardai kept a close eye on the gang that was pulling off most of the heists. For a couple of months, every move that the men made was monitored. On Friday, they made their last move and now they're in jail.
While shoppers came in and out of Tesco in Celbridge on Friday, the seven gangsters jumped out of their vehicles, prepared to cut open the armored van and lift the cash. Three men were using stolen cars. Three men used their own cars, to set up the "doing the marketing" alibi. The seven man? He exited the cash van from the driver's door.
Loose lips sink ships. It's always the informer who does in the most well-contrived plot.
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