{"id":569874,"date":"2026-07-27T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569874\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:00:20","slug":"man-with-182-previous-convictions-is-jailed-for-waterford-city-crime-spree-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569874\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with 182 previous convictions is jailed for Waterford city crime spree &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A 48-year-old man has been jailed for a series of criminal damage and theft offences he committed in Waterford city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crimes were committed in 2024 by Christopher Dutton, of Muskerry Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, a man with 182 previous convictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On March 14, 2024, Dutton stole \u20ac113 worth of clothes from Dunne&#8217;s Stores in City Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the same day, he broke the lock to the front door of the Anchorage Guesthouse on the quay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two days later, Dutton smashed the windows of two cars parked at Patrick Street and at Mayors Walk. The total damages amounted to over \u20ac1,400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On this date he also stole a black leather jacket and a parcel from a car at Griffith Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge John Cheatle, presiding over Waterford District Court, sentenced the man to six months in prison for the offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             (Funded by the Local Democracy Scheme)\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old man has been jailed for a series of criminal damage and theft offences he committed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-569874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569874","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=569874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}