Gang locked up for stealing DVDs from Tesco worth £399
A gang of four men who targeted a Tesco store in Mid Wales have been jailed.
Police acting on intelligence stopped a Ford Focus containing the four men in the early hours on the A548 travelling towards Shrewsbury, a court heard.
Inside were DVDs valued at £399 and two foil-lined boxes.
It turned out that they had been stolen that evening, on January 7, from the Welshpool Tesco store.
Prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz said that one of the passengers had stolen DVDs and computer tablets to a value of £950 from the same store on December 18.
Three brothers Constantine Novac, 26, Alexandru Novac, 27, Claudiu Novac, 29, and their brother-in-law Cristian Stan, 28, admitted theft on January 7 and Claudiu Novac admitted going equipped to steal with the foil boxes and the earlier theft in December.
Claudiu Novac received 14 months. Constantine and Alexandru Novac were jailed for nine months and Stan for eight months.
The defendants, all from Coventry, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.
Judge Niclas Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court yesterday: "
You repeatedly commit crime here, some of you more frequently than others.
They had travelled many miles from their home area equipped to target stores for high-value goods.
