A man has been arrested after cash was stolen and staff were threatened at knifepoint in a Dublin shop.
The robbery happened on Wednesday evening on the Kimmage Road Lower in Dublin 6. At around 8:15pm, a man entered the shop alone and "threatened staff with a knife, demanding the contents of cash registers in the store".
According to officers, the man then "fled the scene on foot with a sum of cash". Thankfully, no one was injured during the course of the incident.
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Following a garda search, a man in his 40's was arrested in the Crumlin area in the early hours of this morning. A garda spokesman said: "As a result of Garda enquiries into this incident involving a number of Garda units in the Dublin City area, Gardai arrested a male in Crumlin, Dublin 12, in the early hours of Thursday, 18th August, 2022.
"The man, aged in his 40s, is currently being detained at Terenure Garda Station under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984. Investigations are ongoing."
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