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Masked raiders steal three £45,000 vehicles
Corby Paragon Automotive Ltd, stolen Land Rovers: 24/01/12
Masked robbers with baseball bats ram-raided a vehicle compound, threatened a security guard and then stole three valuable 4x4 cars in an early morning attack.
Three men were involved in the raid at Paragon Automotive Ltd, in Baird Road, Corby, at about 3.45am yesterday.
They stole three Range Rover Sport vehicles worth about £45,000 each.
The offenders cut a hole in a fence leading to the firm’s premises, then used a vehicle to ram the inner compound and steal the three vehicles – a model of car often favoured by Premier League footballers.
The offenders are believed to have been carrying baseball bats and engaged in a verbal argument with the security guard, although no-one was injured during the robbery.
The Evening Telegraph understands the vehicles were fitted with tracking devices and one has since been recovered outside the county.
Paragon Automotive Ltd is a fleet vehicle management company and specialises in dealing with large volumes of cars across several sites in the UK.
PC Vincent Bangs, an immediate response officer based at Corby, tweeted shortly after the raid, saying: “We have just had three Land Rovers stolen from a secure compound.
“The security guard was threatened by one of them with a baseball bat.”
A police spokesman said: “We are appealing for witnesses following an aggravated robbery, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Baird Road, Corby.
“One of the vehicles taken was blue in colour and the other two were white. They are estimated to be worth £45,000 each.”
Witnesses or anyone with information can call Northamptonshire Police on 101, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
Nobody from Paragon Automotive Ltd was available to comment yesterday.
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darren smith
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 07:51 AMI was a bit sceptical about the article, regarding the use of twitter, but any form of publicity on acts of crime can only be a good thing, as people who follow, or use the likes of Facebook etc are made aware of incidents in the area and can be more vigilant. Maybe more crimes that have been committed should be posted like this, and the detection rate might increase. Did the 4x4's get recovered?
The minder
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 05:30 AMI would also like to add, if you look at the story again, it does say, "tweeted shortly after the raid". And if you have a look at the tweet you will see it was posted by an HTC android phone, not a computer.
The minder
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 05:27 AMHi Mellboy. Pc Bangs here. Thanks for your vote of confidence. I can confirm that I tweeted about the incident once it had been dealt with. I can assure you when a job like this comes in we respond as quickly as we can. If you want to get an insight into how we work, rather than making assumptions feel free to contact me and I will take you out for a shift. However we will have to do a background check on you first.
dazontheraz
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 03:24 PMmaybe they were thinking ahead and had seen the forecast of snow and didn't want to get stuck they do say today's thief's are more vigilant ?
ruby123
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 09:53 PMPerhaps it was PC Bangs job that day to sit at the desk and take calls? They do not all go to chase the bad men. You are confusing them with keystone kops? Anyway by tweeting it straight away someone may have been driving behind said vehicles and been able to provide information as to where the vehicles were heading.
Eagle eye
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 02:34 PMGood one mell, seems that moonlighter is limited to et and missed the national.
enemde
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 01:14 PMthese cars will be in europe by now or pulling a caravan somewhere.
mellboy
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 02:03 AMWell moonlighter if he had responded immediately he would have caught the bad men ! Idiot
simontracker
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 11:32 PMAll vehicles onsite with high value should have a Tracker installed as standard. Vehicle theft is on the rise, we always go out installing Trackers for customers who've had their car stolen and regret not having one previously . www.trackermonitor.co.uk have great advice and upto date news on stolen vehicle recovery systems.
Moonlighter
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 06:16 PMOf course Mellboy. No chance that he did it on his mobile from the location is there? Fool.
Bonsaiman
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 03:59 PMInside job is my guess.
mellboy
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:15 AMSo immediate response officer PC Bangs sat at his computer tweeting instead of immediately responding ????
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