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ARMED GARDAÍ ARRESTED a man in Dublin city yesterday afternoon after a man was accused of pulling a weapon on a shopkeeper.
The incident started around 3.10pm in the Dorset Street area. Gardaí said a man in his 50s and produced a gun and threatened staff..
Armed gardaí were dispatched to the area and the air support unit was also deployed.
The owner of the premises managed to leave the location safely. The man in his 50s then fled to a nearby street.
Gardaí said he was subsequently located by officers on Frederick Street.
A video of the incident shows several gardaí approach the man with their weapons drawn. He is then brought to the ground and detained.
A garda spokesman said: “A standoff lasted for a short time until the man was eventually disarmed and arrested by gardaí.
“He was later taken to Mountjoy Garda Station where he currently remains detained under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, 1939.
“No shots were discharged during the incident and no injuries were reported. The firearm produced was later discovered to be an imitation.”
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Well done guards
Imitation gun or not, the shop staff wouldn’t have known that and would have feared for their lives. Any, no doubt he’ll be out later with the threat of a 6 month suspended sentence that he won’t give two F’s about.
@Alan Wright: When I read that I was thinking you must be exaggerating and that there’s no way a sentence would be that lenient. I was wrong. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/derek-hutch-given-suspended-sentence-for-hold-up-with-imitation-firearm-36307553.html.
Ironically, if he had gotten a few years inside he might still be alive.
https://www.thejournal.ie/shooting-derek-hutch-3808927-Jan2018/
An imitation gun followed by an imitation prison sentence
Someone show this to an American cop and confuse them. Haha!
@Rev.DZ: the two countries are nowhere comparable. In the US, a criminal with a gun is just as likely to open fire on anyone and more so when trying to flee from the police. Thankfully that sort of mentality hasn’t ingrained itself here, yet.
@Alan Wright: I think that that behaviour is also link to their drug miuse. The likes of meth and flakka are not commonly used here.
@Rev.DZ: Show it to the American people and confuse them. I would imagine most of them don’t realise you can get imitation firearms.
@Tomás Barrett: Speak for yourself. I’m using Flakka all the time. I’m flakkaed out of me bin right now.
@Tomás Barrett: I think the problem is more to do with prescription drugs in the USA to be honest. “Ok so your recovering from a back injury sustained playing sports, here’s some highly addictive, opiate based pain killer, come back to me in 3 weeks when your addicted” MERICA
Way too easy to buy imitation firearms. Many airsoft guns look unbelievably real…
@The Alchemist’s Head: and the punishment for using an imitation gun is the same as though a real gun had been used.
The problem here isn’t the gun, it’s the judges.
@NotaWarder: its the same charge as having a real gun unloaded.a real gun loaded is a bigger charge
@NotaWarder: Yes, i have a number of them and use them for skirmish events, and they would easily fool even a Guard. And if you start waving one around in public, you deserved to be arrested or even shot.
Desperation and dispare can drive of commit to a decision to be taken without a second thought
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