Three men arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods as nearly £500,000 of misappropriated 'valuable' farming machinery
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Three men arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods as nearly £500,000 of misappropriated 'valuable' farming machinery
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Friday, 5 August 2022
Dorset Police
Search warrants were executed at two rural locations in East Dorset on June 14.
Hampshire Constabulary and Dorset Police formed a partnership as part of Operation Hardware, in a bid to tackle organised crime.
The investigation was formed following a suspicious incident where a vehicle, on the A338, mounted a grass area and disappeared when it was being tailed by police.
It later transpired that it was stolen from London.
The number plates were cloned from a vehicle out of the county, so the insured driver was not the legal owner.
This allowed officers to search their home address.
