{"id":301519,"date":"2026-02-16T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:21:07","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-theft-after-tapping-debit-card-in-shops-across-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301519\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty to theft after &#8216;tapping&#8217; debit card in shops across Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of theft after he tapped a debit card without authorisation in various shops and businesses across Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Filho, aged 29, with an address at Heritage Close, Belview Gardens, Ennis Road, Limerick city appeared before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick District Court<\/a> where he admitted the offences, which are contrary to Section 4 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting Garda Sergeant Denis Waters told the court that the accused had tapped the card without authorisation to purchase goods with a total value of \u20ac440.69.<\/p>\n<p>The offences, he said, took place across various dates and locations in September of last year.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2012564\/suspicious-activity-limerick-homeowners-warned-once-again-to-lock-their-doors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018Suspicious activity\u2019: Limerick homeowners warned once again to lock their doors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On seven different occasions, Mr Filho tapped the card at Centra Monaleen, Newtown, Limerick, to a total value of \u20ac249.60.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u20ac49.65 was spent in McDonald\u2019s Castletroy across two separate visits.<\/p>\n<p>Other locations where the card was tapped include Garvey\u2019s SuperValu in Corbally, Circle K in Caherdavin and Fine Wines in Castletroy.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor Sarah Ryan, representing the accused, said her client would need some time to pay the money back.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Patricia Harney remanded Mr Filho on bail to pay the compensation.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of theft after he tapped a debit card without authorisation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,61,60,44,7250],"class_list":["post-301519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-city","tag-limerick-district-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301519","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=301519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}