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Gang pose as police in £40,000 city raid

A Taxi Driver was handcuffed by thieves who posed as customs and police officers to get into his house.
The 51-year-old opened his door to two men who claimed they had a warrant to search his house in Portsmouth for drugs and guns.

Once inside they spun him around, pushed him to the ground and handcuffed his hands behind his back.

His face was then covered with a towel and his feet tied with a belt.

One of the men knelt on the man's back while the other, and a third man who arrived, searched the house in St Chad's Avenue, North End.

They discovered the man's safe in his garage and took up to £40,000 in cash plus a Rolex watch. The raid lasted about five minutes.

After the gang fled the man managed to struggle free and raise the alarm.

The victim, a taxi driver and businessman, said: 'I was thinking "why have they cuffed me? I haven't done anything wrong". I asked them to show me their ID when I twigged it was a set-up.

'They were saying the dogs were on their way to search for drugs but I knew it was a set-up.

'They've done it before. I could tell they knew what they were doing.'

The raid happened at 10.35am yesterday.

The burglars are described as three white men, aged between 30 and 40.

office owners trying to dodge the tax man thats who,a dundee owner lost £38000.00 the same way

spot on. drivers paying their dues in cash don't get declared. can't bank the cash so keeps it at home

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Well he's certainly no ordinary taxi driver with that kind of money lying around.

But it looks like the culprits knew this and knew what they were looking for.

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A driver who has had a good friday night and saturday and can't get to the bank 'till monday.

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Grandad,

Well after my driver paid in last night they'd have found an load of account chits and that I owed him money!

I bet you cant earn that in 12 months of friday and saturday nights in reality!! Said with tongue in cheek fella

Although i do feel for these people and certainly dont condone this type of behaviour you have to ask why they keep this kind of money in the house or garage, i bet the taxman didn't know about it

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Legal and proud

Loads a love from BERTIE !!

Well he certainly does now

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I paid less than that for my house never mind had that amount of cash in it.

B. Lucky

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

You can pay less than that for the whole street now you have moved in.

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IDFIMH

You'll upset me one day Sussex.

B. Lucky

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"Here's a simple solution. If you don't want to pay more for a premium service then wait in the queue, problem solved".
Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Ours is a select area, the Fire Brigade are ex-directory and we have the Big Issue delivered Oh, and the milk float has a rear gunner

I thought that the milk float had been car-jacked and is now available, at a very resonable price from Birtley Car Sales, the Norths Premier used car hypermarket.

B. Lucky

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"Here's a simple solution. If you don't want to pay more for a premium service then wait in the queue, problem solved".
Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Is their pitch still open air or is it undercover these days.

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