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Three arrested following 'chop shop' garage raid

GMP A police officer in uniform, with his back to the camera, examines a number of cars including a red Honda stashed in a lock-up with an arch-shaped ceiling. GMP
Officers raided a lock-up garage after receiving reports stolen vehicles were being dismantled there

Three people have been arrested after a raid on a suspected "chop shop".

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) visited a garage in Cheetham Hill on Friday after receiving reports that stolen cars had been illegally dismantled, or "chopped up" for spare parts, there.

Men aged 27, 32 and 59 were detained on suspicion of handling stolen goods.

GMP said suspected stolen car parts seized from the business in Bromley Street were now being examined.

GMP A police officer in uniform holds the arm of a man in a dark purple and white chequered hoodie as he guides him to the back of a police van. The suspect's face is blurred.GMP
One of the suspects is led away by police

Images of the raid released by GMP show a number of vehicles stashed in a lock-up garage in an archway beneath a railway viaduct.

Insp Dan Pickavance, from the Manchester neighbourhood policing team, urged anyone who had had vehicles or car parts stolen to get in touch to help "build our intelligence picture".

"Stealing someone’s hard-earned property and selling it on is vile - quite simply profiting off someone's misery," he said.

"On our Manchester patch – as teams do across the entire force – if we get reports and intelligence of such criminality, you can expect us to act."

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