Housemate and Gardaí

LegacyUser

I'm in a bit of a pickle right now - living with this scumbag at the moment, who is from England. He's a bit of a stoner, steals from each and every job he's ever had (and subsequently fired from said jobs), supposedly owes money to travelers who are out to get him.

About 10 minutes ago there was banging at the door and ringing the door bell - I thought it was politicians so didn't answer the door, then they banged and knocked again. Went down to discover that there was a plain clothes Gardaí there who was looking for said housemate. There were two others in a parked blue/navy car at my driveway. He asked me where he was, I said he was in work. He asked me where he worked and his phone number, and I said I didn't know, which I genuinely don't; he's a scumbag and a tool and I don't want anything like that from him.

He's on thin ice with the landlord, from not paying rent for weeks, so I'm debating ringing the landlord and getting the housemate kicked out. I don't want to live around that, with the possibility of travelers coming to the house looking for him, and of Gardaí looking for him also.

I told the Garda that there was nobody here, as everybody works during the day, yet when I closed the door it turns out my other housemate was in my room. When I told her I should call the landlord, she told me it was in bad form and it could have something to do with the dole - but why would three plain clothes Gardaí be inquiring about the dole?

shoes34

I'd call the Landlord, you should feel safe in your own home - by the way did the Garda show you ID just to make sure it was a legimate call from the Gardai. I doubt its a dole query as wouldn't it be the Department of Social Affairs that would be calling?

LegacyUser

No, they didn't show any ID but I'm pretty sure it's the kind of car that the plainclothes Gardaí drive; I grew up in a village that regularly would have visits from the Guards and the Drug Squad as well, though I never associated with any of that. In hindsight I probably should have, but I somewhat panicked at that moment.

ted1

sounds like they were serving a warrant.

dub_3

Gardai calling to the door isn't really good enough to tell landlord to have him kicked out. In theory they could have been calling to ask him to come down the station to make a statement about an accident he witnessed or whatever.

My suggestion is to wait till all three of you are home, then you go out for milk/cigarettes etc... call the gardai on your mobile, tell them he's home.

If you're not back when they call, your flatmate will open the door to the guards (if he's expecting trouble he may not answer door) and confirm that he's in.

Ideally one or both of you witness him being taken away, then time to make panicky call to landlord saying you or flatmate are scared, heard rumours he owes money to dodgy characters and now the cops have taken him away.

Say you're now afraid of the other tennant and want landlord to change locks etc.. and you're both thinking of moving out

Actually he shouldn't do that without giving the guy notice etc...
But now you've wised up the landlord that he needs to chase the rent if he wants it and / or no point leaving this troublemaker in his house and is likely to loose good tennants.

The key point of what I'm saying is that the call is made in a state of panic after a real incident, rather than a pre planned call to the landlord telling him of various rumours.