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Bank robber loses stash and flees to Ireland

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FRIEDA KLOTZ,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:45 PM
Updated Thursday, November 19, 2009, 1:00 PM

 

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A Roscommon garda arrested bank robber James O'Gara
A Roscommon garda arrested bank robber James O'Gara

James O’Gara, 32, is from New Jersey but for the past two years he’s been living in Ireland. Not for much longer.

The U.S. wants the gardai (Irish police) to deliver O’Gara, who stole $12,600 from a bank in the Bronx in April 2007. As he left the bank, he lost not just his gun, but also his cash.

Empty-handed, he fled to Ireland, where he had an address at Edward Square, Galway city. And now he’s been caught, according to an Irish Times report today.

O’Gara wasn’t long in Ireland before the police were on his tail.

In July of this year, the Irish High Court issued a warrant him. And this Tuesday a garda sergeant, Seán Fallon, arrested him, in Roscommon – oddly enough, at a garda station.

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Posted by spuytenduyvil on Jan 31, 2011, 07:02 PM EST
The man's an O'Gara for Pete's sake. The Irish built the Bronx. What do they want to do, bring him back so they get pay him some interest due on the 12 grand he stole? Or is it to get his likeness right for the statue they be erecting on Albany Crescent?
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Posted by kickstar on Nov 21, 2009, 02:44 AM EST
This is just another Blatant abuse of an extradition treaty which was agreed upon on the basis of extraditing serious criminals on the foot of for example Murder warrants, Not for every offense in the book. The next thing they will be extraditing people for traffic tickets. Robbery from Banks should not be an Extraditable offense.
 


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