8:41 am, January 16, 2026
A ‘professional and sophisticated’ chop shop that was stealing and stripping down luxury cars fell apart after the tracker in a pinched Mercedes led police right to its headquarters.
Officers in Norfolk were able to bust the illicit operation after following the car’s GPS signal to Roundham Park Industrial estate, just off the A11.
Police arrived at the site to the sound of ‘power tools and angle grinders’ before discovering Ignas Senkus, 20, and Lukas Sakauskas, 26 inside.
The duo have now appeared at Norwich Crown Court where they admitted to charges of handling stolen goods.
The court heard that police made the discovery after following up reports of three stolen vehicles. Two of the cars were found inside the chop shop in their entirety, despite being in a ‘dismantled state’.
Meanwhile, ‘headlights and part of the roof’ of the third vehicle were also identified by officers.
When the police arrived, the tracker which had led them there was being burnt in a wood burner, the Norwich Evening News reports.
Prosecutor Payton Goodred-Vaucrosson told the court that officers also found 40 Mercedes and BMW car batteries as well as several boxes of wheel nuts.
Both men appeared in court earlier this month (Jan 9) where they were given their sentences.
In mitigation, Senkus’s lawyer said his client had only been aged 19 at the time of the offences and now felt ‘genuine remorse’.
Sakauskas’s barrister added that the defendant had played no part in actually stealing the vehicles and was just a low level worker being paid £100 per vehicle.
After hearing all the evidence, Recorder Simon Taylor handed both men 12 month community. Senkus, of Bluebell Close, and Sakauskas, of St John’s Way, were also ordered to carry out 90 and 180 hours of unpaid work respectively.
Addressing the duo, the judge said: ‘You played limited but important roles in what clearly was quite a major operation in making a profit out of stolen cars.’
Pictured: Norwich Crown Court (PA Images)
