Officers detain suspect on the A1 after theft of Land Rover in Northumberland
Date of alert:
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
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Northumbria Police
A senior rural cop has heaped praise on officers who detained a suspected car thief and recovered a stolen car that had travelled south after being stolen from a property in north Northumberland.
Shortly before 12.15am on Thursday, April 21, Northumbria Police received a report of a car theft from outside an address in the Berwick-upon-Tweed area.
The victim had returned home to find her Land Rover Defender had been stolen.
She called 999 and officers were immediately deployed to the scene, and they began a search for the vehicle in question.
Just over half an hour after the theft being reported, the vehicle was sighted in the Blagdon area of the county.
Officers from Northumbria Police’s operations department searched the area and followed the vehicle, before bringing it to a stop on the A1 near Tyneside.
A 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and he was charged later that day.
