Gardai stop lorry getting on ferry with stolen goods worth €70,000
Gardaí arrested three men and seized suspected stolen property during an operation at Rosslare Europort last night.
An initial search of the lorry revealed what Gardaí believed to be stolen property.
During a further search of the lorry property including bicycles, power tools and garden machinery and almost 150 beer kegs were discovered.
The kegs were individually covered in black bin bags in the lorry.
Such steel or aluminium kegs are sometimes melted down as scrap metal in parts of eastern Europe.
Gardai said the approximate value of the property seized is in the region of €70,000.
The occupants of the vehicle, three men in their 20s and 30s and all Romanian nationals with addresses in Ireland, were arrested at the scene.
They are detained at Wexford Garda station under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.