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Robbery
Man arrested after taxi driver robbed at knifepoint in North Dublin
A sum of cash was stolen, and the suspect fled on foot.
GARDAÍ IN BALLYMUN have arrested a man in his 20s following a robbery of a taxi driver in the early hours of this morning.
Shortly after 1.30am, gardaí received a report that a taxi driver had been threatened at knifepoint by a passenger in his car in the Poppintree area.
A sum of cash was stolen, and the suspect fled on foot. The driver, a man in his 40s, was not physically harmed.
In a follow-up operation by local uniformed Gardaí, supported by the Armed Support Unit (ASU), a man in his 20s was arrested at a residence in the Ballymun area.
He is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda Station in the Dublin Region.
Investigations are ongoing.
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