Police vehicle rammed in £15k vodka attempted heist
A police vehicle was rammed by thieves attempting to escape with £15,000 of vodka stolen from the trailer of a parked lorry at a motorway service station.
The Warwickshire force said it was called to Warwick Services Northbound on the M40 on Thursday morning.
When officers arrived, the offenders drove at their vehicle in a cloned Renault HGV before they made off down the motorway.
The lorry was later found abandoned in the outside lane of the M40 and the offenders fled by running across the southbound carriageway, the force added.
The vehicle was recovered along with 150 boxes of vodka which officers loaded back onto the targeted vehicle.
"We are determined to reduce this type of theft and will continue to proactively patrol our service areas nightly to target and catch these criminals," a spokesperson said.
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