Three automotive thieves have been arrested within the UK after stealing 5 Mitsubishi Outlanders with a tool disguised as a Nintendo Recreation Boy.

Authorities arrested 29-year-old Dylan Armer, 33-year-old Christopher Bowes, and 31-year-old Thomas Poulson after they had been caught on a safety digicam stealing a Mitsubishi Outlander from a driveway in Scholes on July 20.

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The video shared on-line by the BBC exhibits the boys utilizing the gadget to unlock the Outlander earlier than reversing out of the driveway with it. Native police had been ready to make use of the video to determine the boys and tracked them down.

Whereas looking one of many automobiles owned by a thief, the police found the faux Nintendo Recreation Boy, full with a faux Supreme case. The gadget was apparently saved in a secret compartment within the automotive and is allegedly price round £20,000 ($27,000). It permits customers to unlock automobiles after which begin them and had been particularly coded to crack into Mitsubishi Outlanders. Police additionally found a video that confirmed one of many males demonstrating how the gadget works.

“The utter disregard that they had for the victims, whose hard-earned autos had been whisked away in seconds, is completely obvious from the flippant tone heard on the video footage we recovered from one in all their telephones.”

Armer has been sentenced to 30 months jail whereas each Bowes and Poulson had been handed 22 month jail sentences, suspended for 2 years, for his or her involvement within the thefts.