Search Warrant Executed
On Wednesday 22nd June 2022 the Rural Crime Team executed a search warrant at Woodside Caravan Park, Ryton on Dunsmore, as part of an investigation into a number of stolen vehicles recently recovered in the area.
Enquiries linked a plot at the caravan park to the stolen vehicles and a warrant was granted to search it.
Officers from 4 different counties in company with specialists in identifying stolen plant machinery, vehicles and caravans attended on the morning of the 22nd to execute the warrant.
After entry was gained, several stolen caravans were located along with a plethora of cloned vehicles, stolen plant machinery and a huge amount of suspected stolen camping/caravan equipment.
One male was swiftly arrested at the scene and taken to Nuneaton Justice centre for processing.
Over £120,000 worth of suspected stolen equipment was seized on the day. Following a detailed search of the plot by specially trained officers £19,000 worth of cash was also seized as suspected proceeds of crime.
This means that between the 20th June – 27th June 2022, the RCT located and recovered £400,000 worth of stolen items.
Inspector Allison Wiggin said: “It is important to show the communities of Warwickshire and our surrounding areas, that we will take action against those believed to be involved in criminal acts and endeavour to bring them to justice.
“Nowhere is out of bounds, and we hope to provide the reassurance through our continued actions that we will make Warwickshire a safe place to live.”
During the warrant, officers provided reassurance to other residents of the site, with many of them being supportive of the investigation.
We’d like to thank officers from Thames Valley Police, Northamptonshire Police, Leicestershire Police, #NaVCIS and our very own Warwickshire Police teams OPU Warwickshire and Rugby Police Safer Neighbourhood Team for helping us on the day, we love a team effort 
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.Many of these policing areas have suffered with caravan and vehicle thefts over recent months – offender don’t care about county borders, so we won’t either.
We’ll obviously provide further updates on this case in the coming months, the team now has a lot of victims to contact and material to sort through so that the best evidence can be obtained.
A short film relating to the warrant can be seen on the Warwickshire Police Rural Crime Team Face Book Page and Warwickshire Police Face Book Page.