Video: £80k of ‘stolen’ power tools seized at London car boot sale
Met seizes £80,000 of ‘stolen goods’ at car boot sale following Jenrick visit
- Metropolitan Police seized £80,000 worth of suspected stolen power tools at a car boot sale in Hounslow, west London.
- The operation, conducted on 11 December, resulted in the recovery of approximately 400 items.
- Two men and two teenage boys were arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods.
- The police action was a proactive response to concerns about tool theft, following a previous description of the site as a 'carnival of criminality' by Robert Jenrick.
- Authorities are currently working to identify the recovered tools and trace them back to their original owners.