article_snippet: A pair of car thieves who stole £110,000 worth of Range Rovers in a sophisticated scam targeting sellers on Autotrader  have been jailed.
article_snippet: The duo and accomplice fellow gang member Michael Griffiths', 31, targeted The duo and accomplice Michael Griffiths, 31 first victim on November 3, 2013 when a Range Rover Sport worth £36,500 was stolen from an address in Redditch, Worcestershire.
article_snippet: Then on November 24, another Range Rover Sport, worth £45,000, was driven off in Leicester.
article_snippet: Just four days later, a criminal gang who stole £110,000 of Range Rovers stole a Range Rover Evoque, worth £30,000, from Surrey.
article_snippet: But The duo and accomplice Michael Griffiths, 31 ended up dumping the car in a layby on the M40 near Wheatley, Oxfordshire - when Griffiths disappeared.
article_snippet: Despite their missing friend, Griffiths and Nathan Bates targeted another address in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, on December 1 and tried to steal another Evoque.
article_snippet: But their were foiled when another Evoque realised the pair had tampered with the diagnostics of the car, which was worth £28,500, and that his key fob no longer worked.
article_snippet: the pair were arrested that month and linked to the thefts and attempted theft of the four vehicles - worth a total of £140,000.
article_snippet: The duo  stole £110,000 worth of Range Rovers, including a Range Rover Sport (file picture, right) worth £36,500 from Redditch, and a Range Rover Evoque (file picture, left) worth £30,000, from Surrey  - when Griffiths disappeared .