POLICE are clamping down on poachers.
Officers chased a vehicle that was spotted driving through fields off Station Road, Pyrton, in the early hours of January 20.
The vehicle sped away but was stopped in Christmas Common by officers using a spike belt on the road. Three people and a dog fled into nearby woods and the police helicopter was summoned.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and was released on bail until March 3. Earlier in the month, police were called to a farm in Watlington Road, Watlington, after poachers were seen in a Shogun-style car. In Chalgrove, poachers killed five hares, a partridge, fox and rabbit. Tracks in the snow revealed that they had visited two sets of farm buildings.
On Tuesday last week, intruders broke the locks of a workshop and a computer room at a farm in Ewelme. Nothing was stolen but there were wheel marks in an adjacent rape field.
Meanhwile, police are hunting burglars who broke into a house in Love Lane, Watlington, during the night last Tuesday and stole jewellery and cash.
lA police surgery will be held at Benson parish hall on Tuesday, February 16 from 6.30pm-7.30pm.
Published on 08 February 2010
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