Treasure trove of supercars uncovered inside hidden Birmingham chop shop

A number of stolen supercars and dissected parts of 'stolen vehicles' have been uncovered amid a raid on a Birmingham 'chop shop'. A woman and a man have both been arrested on suspicion of theft.

West Midlands Police today reported a "substantial find" as they were called to search an address in Kingsbury Road, Stockland Green. Northamptonshire Police had alerted the force to their concerns after stopping two people inside a suspected stolen car.

Police arrested a man and woman, aged 40 and 30, on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle. Officers then discovered a number of stolen high performance vehicles, along with a "significant amount" of car parts - which are also suspected to have been taken from stolen vehicles.

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Enquiries are ongoing to identify the vehicles and parts uncovered. PC Joseph Gigli from the force's Vehicle Crime Team said: “This is a substantial find and enquiries are ongoing to establish the identifications of the vehicles and parts found at the address.

“Vehicle crime is a force priority for West Midlands Police, and we are committed to disrupting vehicle crime in our areas and bringing offenders who play a part in it to justice.”

Although there are "many legitimate salvage yards" operating in the West Midlands, police say criminals are using industrial units, garage/ mechanic premises or even back gardens to run chop shops across the region.

They shared a number of signs to look out for that might identify a chop shop nearby:

• Suspicious activity around industrial units, often at unusual times of the day, or night

• Noise coming from buildings out of hours*

• Vehicles that look out of place going into workshops or locations and not coming back out

• Large amounts of car parts being stored, sometimes in odd places such as gardens

• Shipping containers in unusual locations

• Items stored that are clearly expensive, such as engines and gearboxes, outside and out of place

• Items for sale via on-line auction sites from the same seller, often in large quantities of the same item or similar.