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Pair jailed for stealing upmarket keyless cars worth more than £1 million
They used scanners to unlock vehicles parked outside owners homes
Juozas Baltors (pictured left), 28, and Darius Lukauskas (pictured right), 31 (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)
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“The valuable vehicle parts are then loaded onto lorries and exported out of the country.”
On 13 April, 2020, Baltors was stopped by road policing officers in Peterborough after they spotted a BMW X5 being driven on cloned number plates.
Baltors camera roll shows a number of luxury cars.
- Credit: Cambs Cops
Checks revealed the BMW had in fact been stolen from Hampshire 10 days prior and a search of the vehicle revealed a ‘jamming’ device in the glovebox, resulting in Baltors’ arrest.
A search of his home in Figtree Walk, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, uncovered two further industrial-strength jamming devices and images on his mobile phone showed the dismantling of multiple high-value vehicles.
Juozas Baltors (pictured left), 28, and Darius Lukauskas (pictured right), 31, were convicted following a seven-day trial Two men behind the theft of more than £1million worth of keyless-entry cars have been jailed for more than four years. Juozas Baltors, 28, and Darius Lukauskas, 31, were convicted following a seven-day trial for conspiracy to steal vehicles at Peterborough Crown Court this week. The pair conspired to steal 26 keyless-entry vehicles from 10 counties across England, before having them delivered to a ‘chop-shop’ in Peterborough where the vehicles were dismantled and thought to have been shipped out of the county. This inlcuded the theft of a £32,000 BMW X5 stolen from Upminster on March 6 and a £59,000 Mercedes GLE 350 stolen from Grayson on March 31.
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Pair jailed over theft of 26 posh cars including BMWs, Audis and Range Rovers - worth a total of over one million pounds
Police A PAIR of sophisticated car thieves - one from Reading - have been jailed for more than four years each after stealing vehicles including BMWs and Range Rovers worth a total of over a MILLION pounds. Juozas Baltors, 28, and Darius Lukauskas, 31, stole 26 luxury cars across Reading, Bracknell and ten counties in less than 100 days - with the total car value coming to £1,010,813. The pair used sophisticated relay equipment to gain access to the keyless-entry vehicles, by scanning and obtaining the victims vehicle key frequencies from inside their homes.