Gardai appeal for help in Oldcastle cash in transit raid.

Gardai investigating a cash in transit robbery at Oldcastle this morning have appealed for help from the public.

The incident took place just after 10.40am this morning when a G4s security van was parked outside the bank.

A black car pulled up alongside the security van and a man got out and threatened a security worker with an iron bar. He dropped a cash box which was in his hand and the raiders made off with it, in what is believed to be a black Chrysler Voyager car.

The vehicle was later found burned out at Stoneyford. Nobody was injured in the incident.

It is not known how much cash they got away with.

Gardai have appealed to anyone who was in Oldcastle today between 10.15 and 11am who might have seen anything suspicious to contact Kells Gardai at 046 9240999 or the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666111 

It's the third such incident in as many months in the county.

In March, the AIB branch was the target of a cash in tranist robbery with two suspects involved. One suspect got out of a white Ford Transit van brandishing a small weapon.

 

He threatened the security person and took a box containing cash. The van drove around the town and headed out the Gardenrath Road. The suspects tried to burn the van just before the fly over on the outskirts of the town.

Then in April, A cash delivery worker was collecting cash from the Topaz filling station on the Prousdtown Road in Navan garage was approached by two males who jumped out of a Rexton SUV and one of them was armed with an iron bar. They took a cash box, which Gardai say contained a small sum of cash, before fleeing the scene. The security worker is understood to have received some bruising to the leg after being struck by the bar.