Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a series of high-value car-jackings.
Police officers patrolling the city centre in the early hours of Tuesday morning (25/07) pulled over a Range Rover Evoque believed to be travelling on cloned registration plates.
The Evoque was stolen during a car-jacking on Hervey Road in Erdington on Sunday (23/07) and the four occupants – three men, aged 18, and one male youth, aged 16, – were arrested on suspicion of robbery.
They have also been quizzed over two more recent car robberies – in Jervoise Street, West Bromwich, where a Range Rover was taken and York Road, Handsworth, when a BMW was stolen by four masked offenders.
All four have been released under investigation while enquiries continue.
Meanwhile, three men suspected of being part of a vehicle theft gang have appeared at court in connection with a burglary in which two cars were stolen and a car theft from a Sandwell street.
Luke Hodson, aged 19, from Quinton, and Joseph Brennan, aged 20, from Bartley Green, appeared before Dudley magistrates today charged with aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving and driving while disqualified.
A third man, Ronan Lewis, aged 18, from Ladywood, also appeared accused of going equipped to steal.
The charges relate to a theft on Hales Lane in Smethwick, on Friday 21st July when a Ford Fiesta Titanium was stolen and an overnight burglary (4-5 July) at an address on Frampton Way in Pheasey, when another Fiesta and a Vauxhall Astra were taken from a driveway.
Another man, Jacob Brown, aged 24, from Handsworth, is set to appear at the same court on Tuesday 8th August charged with taking a vehicle without consent as part the same investigation.
