Gardaí have seized laptops worth €30,000 and arrested a man following a raid on a premises in Dublin.
Gardaí attached to the Clontarf Detective Unit recovered the laptops during the search of a premises in the Clondalkin area on Monday.
Along with the 21 suspected stolen laptops, cash, documents and a number of mobile phones were also seized. The combined value of the items recovered is believed to be in excess of €30,000.
Preliminary enquiries have revealed that a number of the laptops were stolen following burglaries in the Dublin Metropolitan region within the past two months.
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So far, 14 of the laptops have been matched with eight reported burglaries.
A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested in connection with this seizure and was detained at Clontarf Garda station on Tuesday.
He has since been released without charge. A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Gardaí will be reuniting the recovered property with the relevant owners in the coming days. Investigations are ongoing.
