Hare coursers stopped in Manea
| Updated: 11:08, 06 February 2021
There was a second success for Fenland Police s Rural Crime Action Team on Friday.
Having already disrupted a gang in March, they stopped a Nissan X-Trail in Manea.
Two Anti-Social Behaviour Dispersal Orders and two Community Protection Warnings were issued, two men interviewed and reported, two Covid tickets given out and a vehicle seized.
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10:27 AM February 5, 2021
Cambridgeshire police are appealing for information after a member of the public found a buzzard shot dead.
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A walker discovered a buzzard - a protected bird of prey - that had been deliberately shot and killed.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s Rural Crime Action Team (RCAT) and the RSPB are working to find those responsible after the bird was found with shotgun pellets in its body and wings.
The bird was discovered in Horseheath, near Linton, on January 29.
PC Alun Bradshaw from the RCAT said: “Someone has deliberately shot this bird and we urge anyone with information to contact us.
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1:42 PM January 22, 2021
The damaged caused to the farmer s field in Fowlmere, left and the moment the hare-coursing trio were caught by police.
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A trio of hare coursers have been sentenced after they caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to a Fowlmere farmer’s crops, while attempting to make off from police.
Jimmy Cole, aged 43, Chase Loveridge, 36, and 20-year-old Levi Cole, were spotted driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road in Fowlmere, at about 12 noon on 24 September last year.
Officers from the force’s Rural Crime Action Team were able to quickly box the car in near the junction with the A505.
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12:56 PM January 22, 2021
Updated:
1:52 PM January 22, 2021
Three hare coursers from Surrey - whose five-seater car was overloaded with three men, three children and three dogs - have been fined £1,000 for damaging a farmer’s crops.
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Three hare coursers - whose five-seater car was overloaded with three men, three children and three dogs - have been fined £1,000 for damaging a farmer’s crops.
When he was spotted with Chase Loveridge, 36, and Levi Cole, 20, the 43-year-old driver, Jimmy Cole, denied hare coursing and claimed he had driven to Cambridgeshire from Surrey to walk the dog .
They were seen driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road, in Fowlmere, at noon on September 24.
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2:44 PM January 21, 2021
Suspected hare coursers crashed a 4x4 nose first into a ditch near Sixteen Foot Bank, Chatteris.
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Suspected hare coursers got their 4x4 stuck after crashing nose first into a muddy ditch before being caught by police officers.
Police have been “making life very difficult for hare coursers” recently, stopping suspected offenders in Wimblington and Chatteris on Tuesday (January 19).
Suspected hare coursers crashed a 4x4 nose first into a ditch near Sixteen Foot Bank, Chatteris.
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A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police said: “We were called at just before midday on Tuesday to reports of hare coursing in Hook Drove, Wimblington.