CRIME: Mr Gordon Archer of Kineton Neighbourhood Watch reports that residents should keep a look out for a white Skoda Felicia Estate number P780 DRB sighted in Radway village at 12.30am on Monday, October 15. It is suspected that the occupants are involved in theft from vehicles and sheds for tools.
If you see this vehicle please ring PC Paul Usmar on 0790 151 5492 or ring 999 and refer to this message. If you call about an incident please ring 01926 415000 and ask for the Communications Centre. Please tell them that you are ringing in response
to a message. Please quote the incident number, or you can call Crime Stoppers 0800 555111.
Police are also requesting sightings of a Mini Cooper car registered number HJ53 YGP. The car has a distinctive white roof, two white stripes on the bonnet and 17 inch alloy wheels. This vehicle is involved in burglaries.
Trading Standards Officers are also warning email users about an email scam.
Email users are warned to beware of emails that falsely purport to come from ebay, entitled invoice and thanking the recipient for their purchase of a Louis Vuitton Speedy Bag - priced at £275. Recipients of the scam email are asked to pay the invoice by clicking on a link in the email. This is a common email scam circulating at the moment and computer users are urged to delete them and not to follow any links they might contain.
Householders are also advised that door-to-door sellers are reported to be trying to sell we don't buy at the doorstep stickers door to door. In similar cases in the past it has been reported that some of the sellers claim that residents own stickers are out of date. Email alert recipients are reminded that they can obtain free doorstep stickers from Warwickshire Trading Standards Service.
In Incident number 314, on October 25 an opportunist thief stole money in Kineton. Police are appealing for witnesses to a sneak thief who stole £140 in cash from a house in Kineton while the occupant was in a different room. The money, in a wallet which was also stolen, was removed from a drawer in another room by an intruder, while the occupier chatted with a neighbour in the kitchen of her home in St Peter's Road, Kineton, at around 3pm on Thursday, October 25.
Another neighbour alerted the householder that he had seen someone in her house and the woman then discovered that the money and the wallet were missing. It is believed the thief sneaked in through the front door, which had been left unlocked.
Police would like to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious in the locality around 3pm on Thursday afternoon (October 25). Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Steven Brown at Stratford Police Station on 01789 414111 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
A police spokesperson added, "Police would like to remind people that they should always keep downstairs windows and doors closed and locked, even when you are in the house. If you are in another room, or sitting watching television, or as in this case talking to someone, you may not hear someone enter your house. A thief needs only a few seconds to come in and steal your property, which you will have worked hard to earn.
