Organised crime unit join search for tiger kidnap gang

GARDAÍ from the national bureau of criminal investigation, the organised crime unit and local detectives in Drogheda, are working to try and identify the gang responsible for a tiger kidnapping which saw an An Post clerk forced to hand over up to €600,000 in cash.

None of the cash has been recovered so far and, although the investigation is at an early stage, no arrests have yet been made.

A team of 40 detectives are working on the crime which shocked many people because it involved the kidnapping and abduction of the worker’s fiance and their 10-week-old daughter.