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Dangerous Driving - Arrest and Court Apperance, Sunday 19th April 2020, Waterford

On Sunday 19th April, 2020 at approximately 6.35p.m., after a vehicle failed to stop for Gardaí in Waterford city, a managed containment operation ensued which ended when the offending vehicle stopped at Castletown, Waterford.

During the course of the containment operation an official Garda car was damaged but no persons were injured.

The driver, a man in his early 20s, was arrested and taken to Waterford Garda station where he was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.

The man has since been charged in relation to this incident and appeared before a special sitting of Waterford District Court this afternoon, Monday 20th April, 2020.