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Thieves have failed in a bid to take a high value load from a Dumfries
yard where whisky worth £250,000 was stolen more than three years ago.
The attempt to take a trailer took place at the Currie European yard
in the early hours of Sunday 8/9/13.
A large whisky haul was taken from the same site in February 2010
while another would-be theft failed in December last year.
At about 0320 on Sunday a white Scania lorry - stolen from the
Shropshire area early in the week - entered the south of Scotland site.
Three trailers in the yard were later found to have had their side
curtains cut, in an attempt to check on the contents.
However, it appears nothing was taken and the Scania tractor unit
was found in the yard with a puncture.
Police are also investigating another trailer theft over the weekend
which may have been linked to this incident.
An articulated trailer was stolen from the premises of JD Engineering
at Dargavel and was later found abandoned at the Laumar site on the
Heathhall Ind Estate where a break-in to the premises was also reported.
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