Four arrested after police use stinger to stop stolen car in Skipton
Four men have been arrested after a stolen car was recovered by police in Skipton following a stinger operation.
North Yorkshire Police were alerted by Cumbria Police that a car stolen during a house burglary in Kendal was heading along the A65 towards Ingleton in the early hours of Friday morning.
The dark-blue VW Golf travelled towards Gargrave and then onto the A629, where it had its tyres deflated by a stinger device at 3.12am.
It then headed along the A59 to Skipton where Cumbria Police colleagues found it abandoned outside the medical centre on Coach Street at 3.31am.
Officers working in the Force Control Room then realised that a silver VW Golf had been travelling with the stolen car.
This was stopped just before 4am in Skipton, and four men were arrested aged 37, 20, 19 and 19.
They were taken into custody by Cumbria Police while enquiries continue.
The stolen car and the suspect’s car have been recovered for forensic examination.