Cigarette Gang suspected of service station raid

GARDAÍ believe that members of the infamous ‘Cigarette Gang’ could have been behind a raid on a service station shop during which its manager and a newspaper delivery man were locked in a container for nearly 30 minutes.

At approximately 3am yesterday five members of the gang, who were all dressed in dark clothes and wearing balaclavas, cut ESB cables near Keary’s service station in Mallow, disabling alarms in the vicinity.

They then cut the barrier to the station’s forecourt and smashed down the door of the shop and Supermac’s restaurant.