A stolen ute was found burnt out and a $10,000 motorbike recovered after five vehicle thefts in the Simpson and Noorat area last week.
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Senior Constable Tony Hassett, of Cobden police, said police recovered a stolen motorbike at a Terang address after it was taken from a shed at a Noorat farm on Thursday night.
A Terang woman, 27, has been charged with handling and receiving stolen goods over the theft of a $10,000 Kawasaki Ninja motorbike from a property on Darlington Road.
Senior Constable Hassett said a ute, stolen from Bucks Road in Simpson, was found burnt out on Friday night and was one of four vehicle thefts in the region in the space of a week.
He said the keys had been left in all the vehicles that were stolen and the number of vehicle thefts were higher than normal for the region.
Cobden police are hopeful of making quick arrests in relation to three of the stolen vehicles.
Senior Constable Hassett said a Toyota Hilux and a trailer carrying a red Honda quad bike were stolen from a Carpendeit-Bungendore Road farm overnight on Monday. The ute and trailer were recovered the next day dumped in the Jancourt forest but the quad bike, valued at $5000, was still missing.
Senior Constable Hassett said two men stole a Holden Rodeo ute at 5am Thursday from a farm at Bucks Road, Simpson.
He said the two men then went to Colac where they went through the McDonald's restaurant drive-through.
Then, as they were driving past a property off McLeods Road, South Purrumbete, one of the men got out of the ute and stole a White Holden Commodore which was owned by a young woman who was milking cows at the farm about 6.30am.
The driver of the ute later went around a corner and crashed off Thorntons Road.
The ute was abandoned.
The white Holden Commodore was later found dumped at Mount Noorat - the same place where a ute used in a ram raid at a Cobden supermarket more than a week ago was dumped and torched.
"Follow up investigation are being undertaken and we are hopeful of making an arrest in the near future," Senior Constable Hassett said
Anyone with information is requested to contact the Cobden police station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
