A childhood friend of cartel boss Daniel Kinahan remained in garda custody tonight after he and a teenage relative were arrested over a €20,000 cash-in-transit robbery. During the robbery a security staff member was collecting a cash box from a retail premises on Thomas Street in Dublin at around 12.45pm on Tuesday of last week. This man took a cash box from the security man before fleeing the scene on a bicycle. “The older arrested man would have palled around with Kinahan a good bit when they were growing up in the Oliver Bond area and they were fairly friendly. “A search operation was carried out at three properties in the Dublin 8 area and one property in the Clondalkin area of Dublin 22.

Source: Irish Independent December 22, 2020 19:52 UTC