Awareness of suspicious activity was raised on the Carrigans, Killea & St Johnston Community Crime Alert Facebook page.
Local William Moore says; “there were three boys up around my mother’s house in Kildrum, Killea, but they got away through the fields.
“A red Vecra with a northern registration was spotted and turned the lights off as my brother followed them.
“They sped up but he lost them as the roads were slippy.
The incident has been reported to Gardaí.
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