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4:13 PM February 4, 2021
Rare model steam engines worth up to £15,000 have been stolen from a home outbuilding in Godmanchester.
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Vintage “very rare” collectable steam engines worth up to £15,000 have been stolen from a home outbuilding overnight.
The owner of the uncommon models has been left devastated after they were taken between 8pm on Saturday (January 30) and 10.30am on Sunday (January 31).
One of the stolen collectable models.
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Thieves entered the outbuilding of the victim’s home in West Street, Godmanchester, and took the collection of model trains and engines worth between £10,000 and £15,000.
Sergeant Dominic Carminati of Cambridgeshire Constabulary said: “These vintage items are very rare and are of great value to their owner.
Published:
4:09 PM February 2, 2021
Updated:
5:44 PM February 2, 2021
Cambridgeshire Constabulary received more than 200 Covid breach-related calls over the course of the weekend.
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More than 200 calls were made to Cambridgeshire Constabulary over the weekend relating to members of the public flouting Covid-19 restrictions.
A total of 205 Covid breach-related calls were made between midnight on Saturday (January 30) and 11.59pm on Monday (February 1).
Of those calls, 27 were made in the Fenland area, 20 were in east Cambridgeshire, 23 in south Cambridgeshire and 26 in Cambridge city area.
A staggering 73 reports were made in Peterborough, more than south and east Cambridgeshire combined – a further 36 were made in Huntingdonshire.
“The valuable vehicle parts are then loaded onto lorries and exported out of the country.”
On 13 April, 2020, Baltors was stopped by road policing officers in Peterborough after they spotted a BMW X5 being driven on cloned number plates.
Baltors camera roll shows a number of luxury cars.
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Checks revealed the BMW had in fact been stolen from Hampshire 10 days prior and a search of the vehicle revealed a ‘jamming’ device in the glovebox, resulting in Baltors’ arrest.
A search of his home in Figtree Walk, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, uncovered two further industrial-strength jamming devices and images on his mobile phone showed the dismantling of multiple high-value vehicles.
Juozas Baltors (pictured left), 28, and Darius Lukauskas (pictured right), 31, were convicted following a seven-day trial Two men behind the theft of more than £1million worth of keyless-entry cars have been jailed for more than four years. Juozas Baltors, 28, and Darius Lukauskas, 31, were convicted following a seven-day trial for conspiracy to steal vehicles at Peterborough Crown Court this week. The pair conspired to steal 26 keyless-entry vehicles from 10 counties across England, before having them delivered to a ‘chop-shop’ in Peterborough where the vehicles were dismantled and thought to have been shipped out of the county. This inlcuded the theft of a £32,000 BMW X5 stolen from Upminster on March 6 and a £59,000 Mercedes GLE 350 stolen from Grayson on March 31.