Money stolen during a robbery on an antique shop in Letterkenny has been donated to the Little Blue Heroes charity.
The cash, totalling €1,170, was discovered on a member of a Romanian gang who stole around €30,000 in cash and jewellery from Mourne Antiques on the town’s Main Street on January 18, 2020.
The gang of six had entered the premises on the day in question and while one of them distracted the assistant on duty, another person managed to remove property from a safe in the rear of the shop.
In all 18 items of jewellery were taken valued at €22,000 along with around €5,000 in cash.
A total of €1,170 was subsequently discovered by Gardaí on the person of Larisa Craioveancan Curte who had been arrested and charged with burglary.
She had consequently been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison with the final nine months suspended when the case came before Letterkenny Circuit Court in May 2020.
At Monday’s sitting of Letterkenny District Court, Garda Sergeant Gerard Dalton said that an application under the Police (Property) Act had been brought as a result of monies that had come into the possession of Gardaí in 2020.
Judge Éiteáin Cunningham granted the order for the money to be donated to the Little Blue Heroes charity.
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