Migrants stole scaffolding to seal building contract deal (1 Viewer)

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THREE men who had stolen 70 scaffolding poles worth €2,200 from a building site at Bweeng will go to jail if they steal as much as an apple within the next two years in North Cork.

Inspector Senan Ryan told Mallow District Court that gardai received an anonymous call at 6am on December 6 last from a woman to say that she saw three men pull up outside a building site and felt they were "up to no good". Gardai in Mallow immediately responded but while enroute to the site at Sraid Bhaile in Bweeng saw a white Iveco van which matched the woman's description.

Gardai stopped the van and three men were taken to Mallow Garda Station where they admitted they had stolen the scaffolding. Insp Ryan said the men had sourced a possible construction job, but needed scaffolding in "order to seal the deal".

Jan Puzio, Waldemar Ruchaj and Pawel Sojchera all of 1 Birr Lane, Lower Bearforest, Mallow pleaded guilty to the theft of the scaffolding.

Sojchera and Ruchaj had been in Ireland for four years, while Puzio had been in Ireland for four months. Two of the men had not been in trouble before, but Sojchera had a conviction for drink driving in 2006.

"This, now, is more of this marauding around the countryside stealing what is not tied down or chained," noted Judge Michael Pattwell. He sentenced each man to four months in prison but suspended each sentence if they kept the peace for two years. He issued a stern warning to each not to make a return to Mallow District Court: "Even if they steal an apple from an orchard in the next two years, I will send them to prison."

Source: Corkman.ie
 
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