Gardaí responded to reports of criminal damage with an axe to four parked cars at Forth Mountain carpark, Barntown, which occurred at around 4.15pm on Saturday last.
Following a search, a man aged in his 50s was located at a residential property in Taghmon and a less-than-lethal force option was deployed by the Armed Support Unit to effect an arrest.
He is currently being detained at a Garda station in the Eastern Region under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.
Investigations are ongoing.
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