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Two men admit roles in string of thefts across Scotland

The pair pleaded guilty at Dumbarton Sheriff Court <i>(Image: Newsquest)</i>
The pair pleaded guilty at Dumbarton Sheriff Court (Image: Newsquest)
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Two men have admitted their roles in a string of crimes stretching from Tarbet to Stirling to Glasgow.

Kevin Collins and Anthony Rasmussen pleaded guilty on September 29 ahead of a jury trial at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.

The charges range from February 2023 to June 2024.

Collins, 41, of Lennox Drive, Clydebank, pleaded guilty to reset between May 2023 and February 2024 in Renton of a trailer and quad bike that had been stolen in a housebreaking in June 2022.

He further admitted stealing a vehicle on May 11 and 12, 2023 at Lancefield Quay, Glasgow.

On June 19 that year, he stole two jet skis from the South lodge of Cameron House Estate Track.

On October 12, 2023, he stole a chainsaw from the rear of a property in Ballyheenan Crescent, Tarbet.

Then on November 29 or 30, he stole a quad bike, trailer and camera from Railway Cottages, Aberfoyle, Stirling.

He stole a wood chipper and trailer from a farm in Kilsyth Road, Kirkintilloch, on December 18 that year.

Rasmussen, 32, of Braehead, Bonhill, admitted to reset of a bicycle in Alexandria on February 8, 2024.

The bike had been stolen in October 2021.

He further admitted reset of another bike that had been stolen in June 2022 from a motor van.

Rasmussen pleaded guilty to stealing a motor vehicle from Overtoun House, Dumbarton, on February 7, 2023.

He also admitted stealing a trailer on November 29, 2023 from Main Street, Gartmore.

On the same day into November 30, he stole a quad bike from a farm in Kippen, Stirling.

James McKinley, 54, of Orbiston Drive, Clydebank, and Christopher McKernan, 48, of Pappert, Bonhill, also appeared on charges.

The Crown accepted they were not guilty and they left the dock.

Prosecutors also accepted Collins and Rasmussen were not guilty of breaking into garages in Tarbet and of stealing a motor vehicle in Drymen.

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry adjourned the case for reports until October 29.

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