GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
North Yorkshire Police
If you were held up on the M1 southbound near Garforth yesterday afternoon, this may be why.
We stopped a BMW X5 towing a suspected stolen caravan yesterday and were staggered to find the 11-year-old child at the wheel.
At around 3.30pm on 7 March, we received a call that a caravan had been stolen from a caravan holiday site near Thirsk and was being towed away by a black BMW.
We were able to track the BMW, that was also using cloned registration plates, travelling south on the A1.
45 minutes after the caravan was reported stolen, we stopped the vehicle on the M1 after it left the A1 at Hook Moor Interchange near Garforth.
But nothing prepared us for finding the school-boy sat at the wheel.
A search of the car also revealed equipment typically used by suspects to carry out thefts and a selection of vehicle registration plates.
The boy was arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including theft, burglary, going equipped for theft, and motoring offences including dangerous driving.
He was questioned and has been released on conditional police bail to allow further enquiries to be carried out.
Thanks to the quick work of our skilled roads policing officers and our control room and intelligence team working in the background, the rightful owners have been updated that their caravan had been found.
If you were held up on the M1 southbound near Garforth yesterday afternoon, this may be why.
We stopped a BMW X5 towing a suspected stolen caravan yesterday and were staggered to find the 11-year-old child at the wheel.
At around 3.30pm on 7 March, we received a call that a caravan had been stolen from a caravan holiday site near Thirsk and was being towed away by a black BMW.
We were able to track the BMW, that was also using cloned registration plates, travelling south on the A1.
45 minutes after the caravan was reported stolen, we stopped the vehicle on the M1 after it left the A1 at Hook Moor Interchange near Garforth.
But nothing prepared us for finding the school-boy sat at the wheel.
A search of the car also revealed equipment typically used by suspects to carry out thefts and a selection of vehicle registration plates.
The boy was arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including theft, burglary, going equipped for theft, and motoring offences including dangerous driving.
He was questioned and has been released on conditional police bail to allow further enquiries to be carried out.
Thanks to the quick work of our skilled roads policing officers and our control room and intelligence team working in the background, the rightful owners have been updated that their caravan had been found.
