Ambush fears as two gang figures arrested while following prison van

A SENIOR leader in one of the country’s most feared criminal gangs has been arrested while trailing a prison van.

The gang boss, along with an associate, was travelling in a car behind a prison van late on Thursday night in the Ballyfermot area of west Dublin.

Garda units pulled the car over when they spotted it being driven in a suspicious manner behind a prison van. The van had no prisoners and was being driven by two prison officers to nearby Cloverhill Prison.