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Garda crime scene investigators carrying out a technical examination at the ATM in Clones Town on August 1. Photo Rory Geary<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and the PSNI are exploring whether a gang behind a daring overnight raid on an ATM in Monaghan in August were also behind a cross border armed robbery during the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n
Security staff at a filling station in the Aughnacloy area of Armagh were threatened just before 7am by a gang of men wearing boiler suits and masks while armed with suspected firearms.<\/p>\n
The incident, which detectives believe bore the hallmarks of an organised crime gang, took place when the security firm personnel were attending an ATM on the Caledon Road.<\/p>\n
The group ordered staff into the ATM bunker then removed cash boxes from the security van and the ATM before making off from the scene in a dark coloured vehicle, with a substantial sum of cash.<\/p>\n
Despite no injuries having been reported, senior PSNI officials have said the security staff were left \u201cshocked\u201d by their ordeal.<\/p>\n
As those investigations continue, garda\u00ed are also looking into the possibility that the same gang orchestrated an overnight raid on an ATM in Clones less than 40km away.<\/p>\n
That incident came after thieves targeted the independently owned machine which was stationed at the town\u2019s former Ulster Bank building shortly before 2am on August 1.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood the gang wrenched open a steel security door in order to try and secure access to the ATM.<\/p>\n
Although the ATM itself was left intact, an undisclosed sum of cash was taken in the heist.<\/p>\n
The scene itself was sealed off for a full technical examination as garda\u00ed also procured CCTV from various approach roads in and out of the west Monaghan town.<\/p>\n
Those efforts were made in a bid to identify both the identities of those involved and two vehicles detectives believe were used during the course of the raid.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have been focusing much of those inquiries on a Ford Transit van and silver Audi which were spotted in and around the scene of the robbery.<\/p>\n
Sources believe the episode may also be linked to a similar incident just days previously in Jonesborough, a small village along the Armagh-Louth border.<\/p>\n
Part of that belief is based on the involvement of the Audi which senior investigators believe was also used in the Jonesborough raid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda crime scene investigators carrying out a technical examination at the ATM in Clones Town on August 1.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,9522,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-109377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-liam-cosgrove","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}