Offroad-Express

nice to read something positive for a change. hopefully there will be some arrests and some crims off the streets

Good news that they are making inroads. Perhaps the metal place was negligent and didn't do its home work or perhaps worse, but I guess it will all come out some how.

Bad news is they are just down the road from me and I was going to grab some bits from there in a few weeks - perhaps they will be closed...

Rather these places operated within the law and did things by the book (might have nabbed some crims sooner if that had've).

its a start and it proves the police are not ignoring it.
everything starts off small so hopefully ends up the same result as the huge busts a few months ago in the lower north island

Gotta take the piss here on the reporting, I wonder if he had a hover board or something

"The officer was able to use his mobility device to carry out a vehicle check on the spot,....."

It is also a possible bad sign of the 100 plus vehicles stolen down there recently that they have been stripped down and the chassis cut up as apposed to be reborn with new plates and tags. No possibility of the owners getting there pride and joy back

kiwipete wrote:Gotta take the piss here on the reporting, I wonder if he had a hover board or something

"The officer was able to use his mobility device to carry out a vehicle check on the spot,....."

Or zimmer frame, mobility scooter perhaps.

kiwipete wrote:Gotta take the piss here on the reporting, I wonder if he had a hover board or something

"The officer was able to use his mobility device to carry out a vehicle check on the spot,....."

Mobility device = Police issued iPhone/iPad/Smartphone

I drive past this place everyday to work, i always thought it was a bit dodgy when they deleiver vehicles after dark!

Driving past this morning there was a cop car and 2 heavys at the gate watching the place, the owner live right next door and no sign of him this morning

About 6 cars there (marked and unmarked) and the usual characters who work there hanging around outside the gates. I'm guessing there might be a few more questions about vehicles before this is over. Not many patrols and lux's but maybe this is a tipping point for the police and they can nail down suppliers etc which might lead into the ring doing the bizo in Canterbury.

According to the news tonight they have found several more stolen vehicles at the yard as well. Feckin asswipes!!

On my way home there was 2 tow trucks, 1 was a wee truck with parts on and other truck had 3 bodys on it

wohooo about bloody time it was found , everyone knew it was a chop shop of sorts and they were getting stripped and shipped out as parts.

All the gutted owners and the pay outs from the Insurance companys,the Police man hours and they probaly wont even get sent to jail,home detention or less,they will never stop them.

I reckon for all the hours put in by the police should be charged to the criminals, they do cost analysis already of operations, so would be hard to work out.

Good that all these long term operations are finally coming to good conclusions. Things take a while.

hopefully they will start checking containers full of parts now

Would be interesting to see if these guys being out of business has affected the theft levels (has the number of stolen vehicles dropped). Interesting to hear Pick a part got picked up with a few stolen vehicles too (allegedly). Seems all these wrecker guys are either too trusting, too lapse in recording and reporting, or just down right dodgy and greedy.

lets have a gander. so at time of the bust canty was 66 in 6 months and auckland was 36 in 6 months. BOP 33 in 6 months

lets see if the figures change much as time goes on.

well it doesnt seem to have slowed, just look at the 4wds stolen in canterbury since the start of august alone.

CZF89 1992 White Toyota HILUX <<< 2013-08-19 >>> Canterbury
XB6036 1995 Blue Nissan TERRANO <<< 2013-08-16 >>> Canterbury
SQ7503 1990 White Toyota HILUX <<< 2013-08-14 >>> Canterbury
ZQ4060 1992 Gold Nissan SAFARI <<< 2013-08-12 >>> Canterbury
TD6507 1995 White Toyota HILUX 2.8 D/C <<< 2013-08-08 >>> Canterbury
ZZ1074 1993 Grey Nissan TERRANO <<< 2013-08-06 >>> Canterbury
BGW823 1993 Red Nissan TERRANO <<< 2013-08-05 >>> Canterbury
ZW8265 2001 White Toyota HILUX <<< 2013-08-04 >>> Canterbury
PT4204 1991 White Nissan PATROL <<< 2013-08-03 >>> Canterbury

heard a we story that the days leading up to the bust in rolly that there were tow trucks going hard out to the scrappies