Please be aware that overnight between Sunday 12 December and Monday 13 December 2021 offenders have broken into the Recycling Centre, at Pipers Lane, Kenilworth. Once on the premises the offenders have stolen an amplifier from the Charity Donation Tent. A number of other units on the site were also tampered with by the offenders attempting to break into the units but these attempts were unsuccessful.

This is incident on 113 of 13 December 2021

If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious or have any information about this incident then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 1111

Please be advised that offenders have stolen a white Ford Transit type motor vehicle belonging to contractors who were working at Parkfield Drive, Kenilworth where the vehicle was also parked. The theft took place between 1445hrs and 1455hrs on Wednesday 15 December 2021.

A number of personal effects and a quantity of cash was also within the stolen vehicle. It is believed that the stolen vehicle travelled north along Leyes Lane.

This is incident 259 of 15 December 2021

If you think you may have seen or heard anything suspicious or have any information about this incident please contact Warwickshire Police on 101. Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 1111

Please be aware that between 1530hrs and 2100hrs on Friday 10 December 2021 offenders have entered a property at Rawnsley Drive, Kenilworth by entering a garage and kicking in the bottom panel of a door between the garage and the property. Once inside the property the offender/s made an untidy search and a number of items were stolen including some jewellery and computer tablet.

 

This is incident 106 of 11 December 2021

 

A garage situated within a row of garages at Leycester Road, Kenilworth has had its lock forced off overnight between Friday 10 December and Saturday 11 December 2021. No items were stolen.

 

This is incident 174 of 11 December 2021

 

If you think you may have heard or seen anything suspicious or have any information about either of these incidents then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 1111

MEMBERS OF A CAR THEFT GANG that stole from over 50 homes across Warwickshire and Leicestershire for some seven months in 2019 have been jailed. The Coventry based gang were involved in burglaries that took place at 51 addresses across the two counties as they looked to enter homes and steal keys for expensive motor vehicles. 

Some of the events, where members of the public became involved bordered on robbery as the motor vehicles such as BMW’s and Audi’s were stolen. Other items of values such as jewellery was taken in a couple of the cases.

Three of the team – Keanan Walker, Myles Campbell and a 17-year-old who cannot be named because of his age – pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle and conspiracy to steal. Walker, of Westminster Road, Spon End, was jailed for five-and-a-half years after a judge at Warwick Crown Court said he was taking into account a sentence he has already served for a burglary committed during the same period. A 17-year-old, also from Coventry, who had an extensive list of previous convictions and is serving a life sentence for murder, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years detention. 

A warrant was issued for the arrest of Campbell, 22, of The Moorfields, Stoke Aldermoor, after he failed to turn up for the hearing.

Prosecutor Andrew Wallace said “This is a very large conspiracy carried out between April 1, 2019, and December 24 that year. “It involves 51 separate addresses and a very wide geographical trawl in Warwickshire  and Leicestershire looking for expensive vehicles to steal to a value which exceeds £1 million. “All of these defendants are serious criminals, and burglary and theft seems to be a lifestyle for them.The object of the conspiracy was to obtain vehicles by the commission of burglaries, sometimes to get the car keys, but on other occasions there is a theft of the vehicle which is very close to being a robbery. ” 

The convictions are a result of Warwickshire, West Midlands and Leicestershire Police teams working together to detect and arrest the suspects and place evidence of their crimes before the Court.

In welcoming the news of the convictions Kenilworth’s Safer Neighbourhood Team warned residents that the threat of car theft continues with two vehicles stolen across Kenilworth in the past week using techniques to foil keyless entry and vehicle ignition systems.

Kenilworth’s SNT and Kenilworth Watch are appealing to people with motor vehicles, particularly expensive and sought after models, to take practical measures to deter vehicle theft.

Two things are advised:

An effective steering lock which makes its a great deal more difficult to steal the vehicle.

A metal box (Faraday cage) or faraday pouch which when keyless ignition keys are placed inside cannot be intercepted by unlawful devices near the property.

These measures make a real difference as they go a long way to thwart attempts to steal keyless entry motor vehicles.

Please be aware that between 0100hrs and 1145hrs on Monday 6 December 2021 offenders have stolen a black Range Rover Sport motor vehicle that was situated in a car parking area at Green Leek Lane (off Red Lane/Hob Lane) Burton Green, Kenilworth.

 

The keys for the vehicle were not stolen indicating that this was keyless vehicle theft potentially carried out by a device intercepting the signal from the vehicle’s keys inside a property nearby.

 

This incident highlights the need to place keys of vehicles with keyless entry in a faraday (metal) cage, box or pouch and consider a steering lock cover over the steering wheel.

 

This is incident 119 of 6 December 2021

 

If you think you may have seen, heard or have any information related to this incident then please contact Warwickshire Police on 101 or alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 1111