{"id":599629,"date":"2026-08-20T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599629\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:30:09","slug":"man-40s-arrested-after-double-armed-robbery-in-bray-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599629\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (40s) arrested after double armed robbery in Bray \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been arrested in connection with two armed robberies on businesses in Bray, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wicklow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wicklow\/\">Co Wicklow<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> were alerted after a man entered a business premises on Kilbride Lane shortly after 3pm and a second store on Herbert Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, aged in his 40s, produced a weapon, threatened staff and took a number of items from both premises before leaving. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After a follow-up search of the area, the man was arrested and detained for questioning under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda station in Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He has been charged and is scheduled to appear before a special sitting of Bray District Court on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, garda\u00ed said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in connection with two armed robberies on businesses in Bray, Co Wicklow on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51070,61,60,9820,43],"class_list":["post-599629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-frank-miller","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mam","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599629","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=599629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}