Following an investigation carried out after information was opened in Basse-Terre, a 26-year-old man from Sint-Maarten was sentenced on March 21 by the Basse-Terre criminal court to two years' imprisonment. imprisonment for having participated in more than twenty vehicle thefts perpetrated on the French side.
The gendarmerie decided to set up an investigation group to deal with the large number of thefts of vehicles which are transformed (change of the electronic computer with a new starting key), sometimes made up (new typing of a serial number ) and which can be re-registered in part Dutch and sold again in part in France.
Nineteen vehicles stolen from SXM, found in the Sucker Garden area…
"Last week, a cross-border operation carried out in cooperation with the prosecution and the Sint Maarten police in the Sucker Garden area (photo) made it possible to recover 19 cars which had been stolen in recent months in France," said the prosecution of Saint-Martin, before adding "Cooperation continues to facilitate the exchange of files of stolen vehicles between French security services and Sint Maarten as well as to sensitize the administrations of the two parts of the island in charge of registration. to check the engine numbers of vehicles before providing a new registration, and to compare them with the databases of stolen vehicles, and also to facilitate the return of vehicles by victims or their insurance ”.
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