Man ‘linked to spate of Co Antrim burglaries’ released on bail
Date of alert:
Thursday, 4 May 2023
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Police Service of Northern Ireland
A man suspected of being involved in a spree of rural burglaries that netted a gang more than £70,000 worth of tools and vehicles has been granted bail.
A detective sergeant told Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, it was the police case that Samuel Todd (38) is an “integral part” of a crime gang responsible for “24 incidents of rural burglaries and thefts” in mid and east Co Antrim.
He also said the Newtownabbey man had recently been attacked by paramilitaries in Ballyclare town centre.
While most of the burglaries were committed between June and October of 2022, the final incident was on April 7 this year, two weeks before he was rearrested, charged and remanded.
Todd, currently of no fixed abode, faces 28 charges, including 16 burglaries of non-dwellings.
He is also accused of four counts of criminal damage, four of theft from a vehicle, one theft and one attempted burglary with intent to steal.