PHOTO: A Narromine man has been arrested in relation to a spate of rural property crimes around the west.
A man has been charged as part of an ongoing investigation into property-related crime in rural areas throughout the western plains.
In March this year, Strike Force Dozer was established by officers from the Rural Crime Prevention Team and Orana Mid-Western Police District to investigate rural property crime throughout the Narromine, Warren, Trangie, Nyngan and Cobar areas.
As part of ongoing inquiries, officers were conducting proactive patrols of Merri Merri Road, south of Carinda, last Friday (28 April 2023) when they located a vehicle that had been reported stolen from Narromine in March this year.
Subsequent inquiries led investigators to a business premises in Carinda, where they arrested a 24-year-old man the same day about 1pm…