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Notorious Drogheda feud gangster Paul Crosby was arrested in prison today by gardai investigating the savage murder and dismemberment of the body of a 17-year-old boy in January of last year.
The 25-year-old crime figure was taken from his cell in Mountjoy Prison to the nearby Mountjoy Garda Station under a Section 42 warrant which means he can be detained for 24 hours.
Detectives arrested Crosby in relation to the investigation into the murder of the teenager in a house in Drogheda on the night of January 12 last.
The teenager was butchered by slain gangland serial killer Robbie Lawlor. “The original intention may have been only to give the boy a hiding but Lawlor took matters into his own hands and brutalised the victim,” a senior source said today.
NOTORIOUS Drogheda feud gangster Paul Crosby was arrested in prison today by gardaí investigating the savage murder and dismemberment of the body of a 17-year-old boy in January of last year.