Garda warning after ‘cigarette gang’ raids

GARDAÍ believe that members of an infamous “cigarette gang” may have been behind a raid on a service station in north Cork.

The raid in Charleville bore all the hallmarks of the Dublin-based gang who disabled the service station’s alarm system by cutting nearby telephone wires.

Detectives think that the gang struck at the Statoil filling station shop on the Limerick road between 12.30am and 4am yesterday.