Machinery seized as police target rural crime

Staffordshire Police A composite of two photos, one shows a yellow digger in a plot of land surrounded by a weeds, while the other shows a yellow dumper truck which is also surrounded by weeds with a wooden fence in the background.Staffordshire Police
The machinery is worth an estimated total of £60,000, officers say

Stolen plant machinery worth an estimated £60,000 has been seized by Staffordshire Police.

The excavator and a dumper truck, valued at about £30,000 each, were stolen from a construction site in Burton-on-Trent in February.

They were found on Saturday by officers searching an address near Burton Road in Stapenhill.

A spokesperson for the force said 80% of Staffordshire was rural, and that officers were focused on targeting those involved in rural crime - including agriculture, equine, wildlife and heritage offences.

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