A man is due in court after charity boxes containing cash were stolen from Rochester Cathedral.

Police were called to the cathedral on April 25, after the boxes were reported missing. Officers were also called, on May 15, to reports of a mobile phone theft from a vehicle parked at Strood Sports Centre.

Roy Scott, 31, of Watling Street, Strood, has been charged with burglary other than dwelling and theft from a motor vehicle and bailed to appear at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Scott was arrested as part of a crackdown on burglary and vehicle theft in Medway. Three other men are also due in court, charged in connection with separate incidents.

Daniel Woodcock, 20, of no fixed address, was charged with aggravated vehicle taking and theft, after a car was taken in Burns Road, Gillingham, and the theft of a mobile phone in Northfleet. He has been remanded in custody to appear in court on Tuesday.

Woodcock was also charged in connection with a robbery on May 24, in which a bag was stolen in Barnsole Road, Gillingham, and a burglary in Beaconsfield Avenue, Gillingham, on the same day.

Woodcock appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on May 25, and pleaded guilty to the two offences. He is due to be sentenced on June 11.

Detectives investigating the theft of an iPad from a car in Wiltshire Close, Chatham, a silver metal baton from a Vauxhall in a separate car break-in Wiltshire Close and a laptop from a car in Hazel Grove, have arrested and charged a 41-year-old man.

Barry Treays, of Trafalgar Street in Gillingham, was charged with three counts of handling stolen goods and has been bailed to appear in court on Tuesday.