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Arrests after police seize £200k of plant machinery

Arrests plant machinery Image: Kent Police
Image: Kent Police

Plant machinery and farm vehicles worth around £200,000 have been recovered in Dover following an operation led by Kent Police’s Rural Task Force.

Working with Port of Dover Police, the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service and the National Construction and Agricultural Theft Team, officers seized the goods and made three arrests over two days.

On 26 February, drivers were detained on suspicion of attempting to leave the country with stolen machinery.

A woodchipper was recovered, along with an excavator and trailer, diagnostic equipment and a tool to change vehicle identification numbers.

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