SIX MEN, including two from Wokingham, have been charged in connection with a number of rural thefts.
William Stokes Jr, aged 25 and of Nine Mile Road, Wokingham, and William Stokes Sr, aged 48 and of the same address, were among six men charged following an investigation by Thames Valley Police’s Rural Crime Taskforce.
All six were charged with one count of conspiracy to steal by postal requisition.
Stokes Jr was also charged with three counts of receiving stolen goods, Stokes Sr was also charged with two counts of receiving stolen goods.
They were charged alongside William Harris, aged 27 and of Petersfield, Hampshire; James Maughan, aged 62 and of Wheatley; Sami Nafa, aged 32 and of Brentford, London; and Ameet Saroay, aged 43 and of Southall, London.
The charges are in connection with the theft of several trailers and horseboxes from addresses in North Newington in Oxfordshire, a number in Buckinghamshire, and also in Oxhill in Warwickshire and Lincolnshire, between September 3 2021 and November 3, 2021.
They were arrested, except Maughn, between November 24-December 22, 2021, and are due to appear at Slough Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, January 23.
