{"id":648761,"date":"2026-08-21T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/648761\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:59:13","slug":"four-members-of-organised-burglary-gang-arrested-after-containment-operation-on-m50-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/648761\/","title":{"rendered":"Four members of organised burglary gang arrested after \u2018containment operation\u2019 on M50 in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOUR MEMBERS OF an organised burglary gang have been arrested after a \u201cmanaged containment operation\u201d in Dublin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>At around 10.30am yesterday morning, garda\u00ed stopped a vehicle on the M50 and arrested four men.<\/p>\n<p>Three of these men are in their 20s, and one is in his 40s.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that this criminal group have used this vehicle in a number of burglaries and similar incidents nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The car, a silver 2006 Volvo S40, was searched and a number of house breaking implements, gloves, and face coverings were seized.<\/p>\n<p>The car was also bearing false registration plates.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have provided a stock image of a similar make and model of 2006\u00a0Volvo S40 car, but noted that the actual vehicle has a \u201cdistinctive dark grey coloured drivers-side wing mirror and a yellow tax disc holder in the windscreen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787302753_421_.png\"  alt=\"Silver Volvo S40 Saloon 2006\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Stock image of a similar make and model of Volvo S40 Saloon                    Garda Press Office<\/p>\n<p>    Garda Press Office\n<\/p>\n<p>The four men were arrested at the scene and are currently detained at garda stations in the Dublin Region.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is understood that one man entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/arrests-chapelizod-dublin-burglary-gang-garda-pursuit-7137142-Aug2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">River Liffey in the Chapelizod area<\/a> while attempting to evade garda\u00ed, while another was arrested in the nearby area.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have seen this vehicle in their area.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Dublin Crime Response Team (DCRT) on 01 666 9896, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>-With additional reporting from Niall O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOUR MEMBERS OF an organised burglary gang have been arrested after a \u201cmanaged containment operation\u201d in Dublin on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[15493,9,10,274280,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,90928,15,16,5,274281,7,8],"class_list":["post-648761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arrest","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-containment-operation","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-m50","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-organised-burglary-gang","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117132681911054303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648761","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=648761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}