there's a story in the indo today about a taxi driver who was snared by a phoney airport run. picked the cunt up and he was robbed at knifepoint. the guards arrested him later attempting to do it again at the exact same pickup spot.
I assumed it was a FN job FROM the 'port, not from Tallaght:
A robber held up a taxi driver at knifepoint after ordering the cab through an app and posing as a genuine fare to Dublin Airport, it is alleged.
Sean Barrett (25) was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the robbery after gardaí found him later that day outside the same address in another airport-bound taxi without any travel documents or luggage.
Mr Barrett, of Brookview Drive, Tallaght, was refused bail at Dublin District Court and remanded in custody.
Objecting to bail, a garda told Judge Bryan Smyth the alleged victim accepted a fare through the Free Now app and went to a house at Brookview Way, Tallaght, at 3.30am on February 13.
The journey was to be from there to the airport.
When he arrived, the suspect approached the driver’s door brandishing a silver knife with a 10in blade and demanded money.
The taxi driver handed over €600 in cash from his wallet and the centre console and the suspect fled through gardens, the garda said.High quality dashboard CCTV did not capture the robber’s face but audio was heard and his clothing was seen.
The driver told gardaí he had believed it to be a genuine fare when he accepted the job from the app.
Gardaí got the details of the app user who had ordered the taxi. Later that day, at 12.20pm, gardaí saw another taxi parked outside the same address at Brookview Way.
Mr Barrett was the passenger and the driver said he had picked him up and was about to go to the airport.
Mr Barrett lived around the corner and had “no reason” to be getting a taxi from there, the garda said. The phone number used to order both taxis was the same as the number for the phone found on Mr Barrett, he added.
The gardens the robber had escaped through backed almost directly onto the accused’s home, the garda told the court.
Defence barrister Luke O’Higgins said it could not be said there was no logical reason for the accused to have got a taxi from another address. He could have been “out and about”, he said.
Applying for bail, he said the prosecution’s case was “circumstantial at this point”.
The robber’s face was not seen and the accused had no weapon when he was stopped in the other taxi, he added.
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