Dublin peace commissioner (50) denies forging search warrants
Facing trial | Steven Wrenn (50) was charged with four offences over warrants allegedly drafted to search two properties in 2021.
Steven Wrenn (Pic: Paddy Cummins)A peace commissioner and former councillor has pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice and forging search warrants for garda operations.The garda anti-corruption unit has been investigating the activities of officers in a Dublin unit.Steven Wrenn (50) was charged with four offences over warrants allegedly drafted to search two properties in 2021.Mr Wrenn, of Iveragh Road, Whitehall, Dublin, appeared at Dublin District Court on March 20 and was granted €200 bail.He appeared again yesterday when he indicated, through his solicitor, that he was pleading not guilty and opting for a trial before a Circuit Court judge and jury.The former Labour Party councillor is accused of making a false instrument, a search warrant and information between September 30 and December 29, 2021, used to induce another person to accept it as genuine for a search carried out on September 7, 2021, of a flat at Mountjoy Square, Dublin.He is accused of making another false instrument between August 28 and December 20, 2021, a warrant for a search on June 19 at Kenilworth Road, Dublin 6.It is also alleged that over the same two time periods, he twice perverted the course of public justice by signing the warrants.Yesterday, Judge Treasa Kelly ordered him to appear again on June 6 to be served with the book of evidence and returned for trial to the higher court.
