Raids found stolen cars in shipping containers

Five people have been charged after police found stolen cars hidden on a Nottinghamshire farm.

Two SUVs were found in a shipping container and a further five cars in outbuildings during a raid in Ollerton Road, Carburton, on 15 October 2023.

Shipping containers destined for the United Arab Emirates were then intercepted at ports in London, Felixstowe and Southampton the same month with 13 further stolen vehicles seized.

Five people have been charged with conspiring to receive stolen goods by Nottinghamshire Police and are due in court.

The total value of the vehicles seized is estimated at about £600,000 by investigators.

At the farm a silver Land Rover Defender and a black Land Rover Sport HSE - reported stolen from addresses in the West Midlands - were found inside the shipping container.

This led to searches of farm buildings which uncovered five more vehicles - reported stolen from London, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Derbyshire and Newcastle - including two BMWs, two Mercedes and a red Jaguar F-Pace V6.

At the ports, five containers were captured containing two Lexuses, two Toyotas, a Jaguar, three BMWs, an Audi, Mercedes and three Land Rovers.

Police said two men from Carburton, aged 64 and 69, are due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court on Tuesday along with a 40-year-old man from Bedford, a 46-year-old man from Stoke-on-Trent and a 43-year-old man from Peterborough.

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