SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MAN WHO ESCAPED GARDAI IN MOYLOUGH

Date Published: 04-Aug-2008

The search is continuing this evening for a man who escaped from Gardai after they surrounded a crashed car in Moylough this morningGardai from Mountbellew, Ballinasloe and the Tuam Traffic Corps pursued the purple Ford Fiesta car and surrounded it when it crashed in a housing estate in MoyloughThey arrested four of the occupants of the car in connection with a series of theft crimes in Athlone and Ballygar but a fifth person, believed to be the driver escapedThree of the four people arrested - two men and a woman- are still being questioned at Ballinasloe Garda station this evening under Section Four of the Criminal Justice ActThe fourth person arrested - a woman - has been released without charge