Websites being used to sell stolen cars

GARDAÍ believe a gang is using websites specialising in second-hand goods and cars to sell off stolen cars to unsuspecting buyers.

A Roscommon man was arrested in Cork last Friday on suspicion of selling a stolen two-year-old Ford Mondeo on a popular site and of obtaining €7,000 through deception.

The 08 Laois-registered car was stolen on November 24 last at Enfield, Co Meath, as a man and his young daughter were dropping off bottles at a recycling centre. The car was posted for sale on the internet site on December 3 and purchased four days later by a non-national in east Cork.