{"id":685250,"date":"2026-01-09T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685250\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:46:20","slug":"ballyginniff-road-area-of-aldergrove-crumlin-man-arrested-after-being-caught-attempting-to-rob-co-antrim-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685250\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballyginniff Road area of Aldergrove, Crumlin: Man arrested after being caught attempting to rob Co Antrim pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man was subsequently arrested with a number of tools on his person\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0f86018e-ae52-4f71-91da-04ebe9f6e7e7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A man was subsequently arrested with a number of tools on his person<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man has been arrested after a group males were caught in the process of trying to rob a pub in Co Antrim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Police received a report of a burglary at licensed premises in the Ballyginniff Road area of Aldergrove, Crumlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The PSNI have since issued an appeal seeking witnesses and information following the incident. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man was subsequently arrested with a number of tools on his person\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0f86018e-ae52-4f71-91da-04ebe9f6e7e7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A man was subsequently arrested with a number of tools on his person<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">News Catch Up &#8211; Friday 9 January <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Detective Sergeant Monaghan said: \u201cLocal officers attended the scene, where they heard banging and smashing coming from inside the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cA 44-year-old man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of burglary and going equipped for burglary. He remains in police custody at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cDamage was caused to the inside of the property and to gaming machines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe man arrested had a number of tools with him and we believe he was accompanied by at least one other male, who made off before our officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cOur enquiries are ongoing and we would appeal to anyone with information, including dash-cam, CCTV or other footage, to contact detectives on 101, quoting reference number 40 of 09\/01\/26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cAlternatively, you can submit a report online using the non-emergency reporting form via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport\/ <\/a>or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was subsequently arrested with a number of tools on his person A man has been arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[155107,1211,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-abdullah-sabri","9":"tag-antrim-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115867103316160748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}