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Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n
Out-buildings, sheds and vans have been targeted in a series of burglaries in Co Down where fuel and high-value tools have been taken, police have said.<\/p>\n
Officers in Downpatrick are appealing for information after reports of four burglaries in Crossgar and Saintfield in November.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Smyth said: “Initially, officers attended a report of a theft in the Ballylone Road area of Saintfield on Wednesday, 17th November shortly before 8:00pm. A check of the grounds of the property and out-buildings showed a quantity of fuel and a high-value power washer were taken.<\/p>\n
“The second report was made on Friday, 28th November at approximately 11:30am that a van had been broken into and a large quantity of high-value tools had been stolen overnight in the Drumaghlis Road area of Crossgar.<\/p>\n
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Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n
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“A third report came in less than an hour later that the resident of a neighbouring property in the Drumaghlis Road area discovered that their shed had been broken into and ransacked. On examination, a number of high-value tools had been taken.<\/p>\n
“The fourth report was made on Monday, 1st December around 12:30pm that a quantity of fuel and tools were stolen from out-buildings on another property on the Drumaghlis Road, this is believed to have occurred between Thursday 27th November and Monday, 1st December.<\/p>\n
“We are appealing for witnesses and CCTV footage that may be able to assist our investigation into these burglaries. Please get in contact with officers on 101 quoting reference 583 28\/11\/25.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Belfast Telegraph. Out-buildings, sheds and vans have been targeted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[112716,1384,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-609267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-claire-williamson","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115654983541802938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}