Seized video games taken from police depot

Published: Sept. 30, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Order reprints
LEEDS, England, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Leeds, England, said thieves broke into a secure police depot and made off with more than $1 million in video games that had been seized the same day.

Investigators said seven pallets of games -- which included 16,000 copies of "Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway" for the PlayStation 3 -- were stolen from a truck while the driver was resting, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

Officers spotted falsified license plates on the truck being used by the thieves and it was impounded along with the video games. However, before the truck and games could be tested for fingerprinted and DNA, it was stolen from a police depot.

The truck was later found abandoned -- and empty -- in a Bradley, England, parking lot.

"We are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry, including eBay transactions where a number of the games have been potentially identified as being advertised for sale. Arrests have already been made in respect of this," a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for video game creator Ubi Soft said the company is working to replace the stolen games.


© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


Levi Johnston: Palin wants to make money (2 min)
Conditions in DRC provinces worsening (9 min)
Spain, Germany 1-1 at Davis Cup tennis (11 min)
1,400 die a week in Sri Lankan camp (14 min)
Speculation grim for North Korea's Kim (25 min)
Tim Hortons chain set to invade New York (31 min)
High insulin level linked to breast cancer (42 min)
fark
2001: Teacher fired for sleeping with student. 2003: Hired again by same school. 2006: Fired again...
Drunk man on tractor leads police on wild, 40-minute chase at speeds up to 12 MPH
Once suspected of causing leprosy and shunned because it's never mentioned in the Bible, the humble...
Robert Plant honored with Commander of the British Empire and promises not to boss around Jimmy...
You're worried about losing your job. Do you a) improve your performance, b) look for something...
Teenage hit-and-runner uses Self-Arrest lane to be booked and released in twenty minutes. Would...