The background is as follows:
At two in the morning between Wednesday and Thursday, thieves broke into an engine room at André Eriksen’s home in the Nibe area.
From here, the perpetrators stole two so-called UTVs – four-wheeled vehicles with a cab – with a total value of around DKK 900,000.
André Eriksen wrote about it in a post on Facebook.
The two stolen UTVs were carefully described with both make, registration number and frame number.
In the post, André Eriksen also describes how he suspects the theft has happened and at the same time promised a reward of DKK 25,000 to the person who could help him get his vehicles back.
– We have reason to believe that they drove off in them, probably with a follow-up car from Nibe and to Eriksborgvej 98 in Silkeborg, he writes, among other things. in the post.
– They have probably been three to six people, because the UTVs have been pushed the first distance, and they are difficult to push around with, it also reads.
Two so-called UTVs stolen from Nibe have been recovered via GPS technology Private photo
The owner of the two UTVs is pretty sure that the break-in and theft was done by people with knowledge of the property, which has both a gate and bollards. During the break-in, the thieves also destroyed fences and locked animals out of the property.
– It has been very unpleasant. It’s pure Olsen Gang. The theft was carefully planned, but fortunately the thieves had no understanding of GPS. Both my vehicles were equipped with battery operated GPS’s. I traced the vehicles to an address at Silkeborg and gave that address to the Central and West Jutland Police. They sent a patrol out there, but they reported back that there was nothing at the address, explains André Eriksen.
But then André Eriksen was contacted by someone with a really good knowledge of GPSs in vehicles and the use of GPSs for tracking stolen vehicles.
Central and Western Jutland Police had two patrol cars in the yard at Silkeborg. However, they could not find the expensive vehicles. Private photo
His name is Søren Eriksen, he is an old Silkeborg boy and is the owner of the company Vortex Danmark in Djursland – a company that makes a living by equipping expensive machines with GPS so that they can be tracked after, for example, theft. Søren Eriksen had seen André Eriksen’s Facebook post, which had been shared in a group called “Silkeborg helps each other”.
– I called André and asked him if they had tried this and that. But the GPS had gone to sleep. It could indicate that they were standing still in one place. I asked him to call the GPSs equipped with a phone number and the GPSs came alive. I also got the phone number, and then I paired the signals with our slightly older software, and boom, I had them, explains Søren Eriksen.
By entering the data from the UTVs’ GPS into Vortex’s software, he was able to ping the signals down to a radius of approximately two meters and 10 centimeters, while the police had pinged the vehicles to the middle of the yard in the three-long yard at the address outside Silkeborg . The police’s equipment had pinged the vehicles to a radius of 25 metres, explains the police who did not find the vehicles on the patrol’s first visit to the address.
Søren Eriksen then resolutely took his car on Monday morning and drove to the address in Silkeborg, where he followed the GPS signals and found the two expensive vehicles in a few minutes.
The two UTVs had driven directly into a shelter belt near the property in Silkeborg. Private photo
– I wanted to see if our system could do it as it should. It may well sound a bit smart-ass. But I trusted our equipment so much that if we couldn’t find the vehicles, we could find the GPS equipment. But sure enough – here the vehicles were driven all the way into a lap belt with a tarpaulin over it. At the same time, the thieves had driven a large van to the front, so they were well hidden from the police, who had concentrated their patrol on the buildings in the immediate vicinity of the courtyard, says Søren Eriksen, who is delighted to have been able to help recover the vehicles .
He emphasizes that his effort is not about getting the reward.
– I didn’t even know there was a reward until I spoke to André the second time. It’s not cool to make money from other people’s misfortune either, so now we have to see what we do with that bounty. I could settle for a beer at the airport, says Søren Eriksen modestly.
He only drove from the property near Silkeborg when a transport truck from Falck had arrived, had loaded the two vehicles and started the journey home to Nibe.
– I am very happy with Søren’s efforts, says André Eriksen.
He praises the North Jutland Police, while his enthusiasm for the Central and West Jutland Police can lie in a very small place.
– When they stand at the property in Silkeborg and call me and tell me that they can’t find anything. And then a private man drives down there, and he can find the vehicles in five minutes, then they haven’t looked properly, states André Eriksen, who in the same breath emphasizes that the bounty will now be paid out.
The North Jutland Police confirm that on Monday at noon they called patrols from the Central and West Jutland Police to the address near Silkeborg. But that there are no arrests in the case, as there were no people present at the address. The case is still being investigated, it says.
2024-10-21 17:48:00
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