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Group in transit van stealing car batteries in west Wiltshire area

byDaniel Jae Webb
3 February 2017 • 6.18pm

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A Wiltshire resident has taken to Facebook to warn others that car batteries are being stolen in and around villages near Chippenham.

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In a post on a ‘shout out’ page, Shannon Wilson warned that a number of cars have recently been targeted by a group of people, thought to be of Asian descent.

The group are said to be driving a while transit van.

The incidents are said to have happened in the Burton and Yatton Keynell areas.

Also posting on Facebook, Ad Smith said that he ‘had a load of catalytic converters stolen’ from Porte Marsh Industrial Estate, Calne, last weekend.

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