{"id":82981,"date":"2025-09-24T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/82981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:30:10","slug":"manhunt-under-way-for-prisoner-who-escaped-from-garda-station-on-monday-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/82981\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt under way for prisoner who escaped from Garda station on Monday \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are searching for a man suspected of involvement in the drugs trade after he escaped from a Garda station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He had been arrested for questioning during an operation last Thursday and was in custody. He escaped on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The suspect, who is in his 40s and has been a target for garda\u00ed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/kilkenny\/\">Kilkenny<\/a>, appears to have taken advantage of an unsecured area of the station campus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed are concerned he has had help and will have the resources to flee abroad. Efforts are being made to ensure he cannot leave the country through the main ports or airports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The man is considered a significant figure in the regional drugs trade and is suspected of directing others in the commission of crime. He was detained last Thursday in a planned operation following an investigation into the activities of a gang based in southeast Leinster with reach into parts of Munster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">While investigations to determine precisely how the suspect escaped from custody continue, garda\u00ed believe there was a lapse in a usually secure area at Kilkenny station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Though he fled of his own volition, he has a significant number of criminal contacts in the area who are believed to have aided him afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">He was being interrogated during a prolonged maximum period of detention for questioning granted to garda\u00ed due to the seriousness of the allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In reply to queries, Garda Headquarters on Wednesday confirmed a prisoner escape was under investigation but did not provide details. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGarda\u00ed are investigating the escape from Garda custody of a male, aged in his 40s, on Monday, September 22nd, from a Garda station in the eastern region,\u201d the Garda said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Though escapes from Garda custody \u2013 or from prison custody, usually on medical visits or other escorts \u2013 are not unprecedented in the State, they are rare and treated very seriously. Many of those who have escaped have been located and arrested within days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">However, more senior criminals with access to significant funds pose a greater challenge as they have the resources to evade garda\u00ed for long enough to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The escape of the suspect in Kilkenny is an embarrassment for the Garda and a significant manhunt has been under way since Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are searching for a man suspected of involvement in the drugs trade after he escaped from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,1328,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-82981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-kilkenny","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82981","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=82981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}