Garda\u00ed are urging people to always ensure their homes and vehicles are locked after an incident in Pettigo at the weekend.<\/p>\n
A 4\u00d74 was stolen from a farm at\u00a0Grousehall, Pettigo on Saturday the 6th of September, between 1.45pm and 2pm.<\/p>\n
The vehicle, a blue Toyota Hilux, had a trailer attached with a calf on board.<\/p>\n
The trailer and calf were abandoned a short distance down the road over the border and the stolen jeep was recovered the following day in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have issued an appeal to anyone who may have travelled in the Grousehall or general Pettigo area on the 6th of September between 1pm and 2.30pm with a dash-cam to make the footage available to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Garda Gr\u00e1inne Doherty said: \u201cWe feel that it is important to make people aware that these types of incidents are taking place. The days of being able to leave house doors or vehicle doors unlocked has well and truly gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease always ensure that your vehicle is locked when unattended regardless of whether it is parked at your home, your farm or in a public place and never leave your keys in your vehicle. Do not make life easy for opportunist thieves. Always report suspicious activity to Garda\u00ed immediately.<\/p>\n
If anyone can assist with relevant information in relation to the Pettigo incident, they are asked to contact Garda\u00ed in Ballyshannon on 071-9858530.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Should anyone wish to discuss farm or any other type of security measures, they can contact Sergeant Fergus Mc Groary (Divisional Crime Prevention Officer) and he will be happy to assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Warning after jeep with calf in trailer stolen from Donegal farm was last modified: September 9th, 2025 by Rachel McLaughlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are urging people to always ensure their homes and vehicles are locked after an incident in Pettigo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","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=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}