{"id":286608,"date":"2026-02-08T02:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T02:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:22:06","slug":"man-arrested-after-reports-of-criminal-damage-in-wexford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286608\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after reports of criminal damage in Wexford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 50s has been arrested after an axe was used to damage a number of cars in Co Wexford.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed responded to reports of criminal damage to four parked cars at the Forth Mountain carpark, located about 10km outside Wexford town, at around 4.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Armed Response Unit was called in and deployed a &#8220;less-than-lethal&#8221; force option to arrest the man after he was located at a house in Taghmon.<\/p>\n<p>The man is currently being held at a garda station in the east of the country under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have also said that investigations remain ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 50s has been arrested after an axe was used to damage a number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-286608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}