The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Two foreign nationals are being held in Germany after being caught with a pair of tractors stolen from a Moulton farm.
The Lithuanians’ lorry was stopped by world police organisation INTERPOL on an autobahn near Wiesbaden.
Two John Deere tractors on board – worth £60,000 in total – had been taken from F Dring and Sons overnight in the early hours of March 22. The lorry was pulled over on March 24.
The Voice reported in our March 26 edition that the stolen farm equipment – which included a cultivator still coupled to one of the tractors as it was driven away – has been recovered. We are now able to publish more details about what is thought to have happened.
DS Lance Morgan, of Spalding CID, said the men only entered the country on March 21.
The tractors were driven from the High Road farm just over three miles to a disused barn at Banks Farm at Randall Bank, near Moulton Chapel.
The cultivator was dumped there and the tractors loaded on to a Tautliner trailer pulled by a Lithuanian-registered Scania cab, which was then driven to Dover and out of the country.
DS Morgan said the two men arrested – aged 43 and 34 – will be dealt with by German authorities.
Meanwhile, he appealed for anyone who saw the Scania lorry – with distinctive DSV lettering on the front – being driven in Lincolnshire to get in touch by calling 101.
The tractors are yet to be returned to the farm.
