FOUR men have been arrested in connection with stealing an estimated £100,000 worth of cigarettes in Hampshire.

Officers from Hart and Rushmoor CID executed four warrants this morning in Slough, Berkshire and West Drayton, London in connection with the thefts in the county, as well as in Berkshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

The thefts took place between January 2012 and May 2013 at various shops and garages.

Three men from Slough, aged 22, 30 and 32, and a 30-year-old man from West Drayton have been arrested on suspicion of burglary.

They are being questioned by police.