Three arrested as police probe car 'chop shop'

Three men have been arrested after a stolen vehicle was tracked to a suspected "chop shop", where vehicles are stripped of their parts and sold.

The men, aged 30, 37 and 61, were detained on Wednesday at an industrial estate near the Middlewood area of Sheffield, according to South Yorkshire Police.

They were found to be moving parts believed to have been stripped from a suspected stolen Land Rover. All three arrested men were later released on bail.

A fourth man who was also at the scene managed to evade arrest and was still at large, a force spokesperson said.

Det Sgt Thomas Jordan, from South Yorkshire Police, said: "So-called chop shops form part of much wider organised criminality and often involve cars being stolen on order to be stripped of their parts and sold on for cash.

"We know there is a direct link between this organised criminality and burglaries, and that is why we are appealing for information to help us shut down this harmful trade in Sheffield and across South Yorkshire."

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