{"id":472980,"date":"2026-05-07T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472980\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:53:13","slug":"woman-arrested-in-lurgan-car-bomb-probe-charged-with-obstructing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472980\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in Lurgan car bomb probe charged with obstructing police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>woman arrested<\/strong> following an <strong>attempted car bomb<\/strong> attempt on the<strong> Lurgan PSNI station<\/strong> has been charged with obstructing police.<\/p>\n<p>The dissident republican group, the New IRA, claimed responsibility for the incident in March that saw a food delivery driver hijacked in Kilwilkie and forced to drive a \u201ccrude but viable\u201d device to the station.<\/p>\n<p>The device failed to explode.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were arrested on Wednesday by police investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Following three arrests as part of the investigation into an attack on Lurgan police station, detectives from our Serious Crime Branch have charged a woman to court.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, aged 39, has been charged with obstructing police.  Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JWSAdgHaUV\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/JWSAdgHaUV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qh9M03qVIt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qh9M03qVIt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Police Service NI (@PoliceServiceNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceServiceNI\/status\/2052111454824788246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A woman, 39, has been charged with obstructing police.<\/p>\n<p>She has been released unconditionally in respect of perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to appear before Craigavon Magistrates\u2019 Court on June 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>A 48-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy remain in custody at this time.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman arrested following an attempted car bomb attempt on the Lurgan PSNI station has been charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-472980","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-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116533395988928345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472980","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=472980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}