{"id":582643,"date":"2026-09-28T19:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=582643"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:59:36","slug":"attempt-made-to-smuggle-van-stolen-in-britain-from-belarus-into-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/attempt-made-to-smuggle-van-stolen-in-britain-from-belarus-into-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Attempt Made to Smuggle Van Stolen in Britain from Belarus into Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian border guards detained a minibus arriving from Belarus that had been listed as stolen in the United Kingdom, the Latvian State Border Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/vsat.lrv.lt\/lt\/naujienos\/salcininku-punkte-pasienieciai-sulaike-mikroautobusa-pries-keliolika-dienu-pavogta-jungtineje-karalysteje-foto-C7F\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A 58-year-old Latvian citizen driving a Ford Transit was attempting to enter Lithuania from Belarus through the \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoint on Friday, September 25.<\/p>\n<p>The man presented documents for himself and the vehicle, which raised no suspicions. However, a check of the database revealed that the 2022 minibus bearing British registration plates had been reported stolen in Britain on September 10.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-trial investigation has been launched. The driver was questioned as a witness and released. The vehicle was transferred to the Var\u0117na Border Guard Unit for temporary storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian border guards detained a minibus arriving from Belarus that had been listed as stolen in the United Kingdom, the Latvian State Border Guard reports. A 58-year-old Latvian citizen driving a Ford Transit was attempting to enter Lithuania from Belarus through the \u0160al\u010dininkai checkpoint on Friday, September 25. The man presented documents for himself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":582642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aba9cfbb00dd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Attempt Made to Smuggle Van Stolen in Britain from Belarus into Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582644,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582643\/revisions\/582644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}