{"id":387874,"date":"2026-04-08T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:47:09","slug":"gardai-officially-classify-lucky-dip-gang-as-criminal-organisation-as-major-crackdown-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387874\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed officially classify \u2018Lucky Dip\u2019 gang as criminal organisation as major crackdown under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Video grab of the 'Lucky Dip' gang attempting to break into cars in the Leinster area\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c984a96a-87de-4a37-af14-e5c6f782e365.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Video grab of the &#8216;Lucky Dip&#8217; gang attempting to break into cars in the Leinster area<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed have officially classified the prolific \u2018Lucky Dip\u2019 gang as a criminal organisation as a major crackdown on their activities is now in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Irish Independent can reveal that detectives have identified over 60 criminals linked to the crime group who are suspected of carrying out hundreds of burglaries and car thefts in the Leinster area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video grab of the &#8216;Lucky Dip&#8217; gang attempting to break into cars in the Leinster area Garda\u00ed have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,26023,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-387874","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-ken-foy","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387874","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=387874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}