A man will appear in court today after a sniffer dog search ended in his arrest.

Police were called to Bysing Wood Road in Faversham at around 3.50am yesterday to reports a bag had been snatched from a car.

Ashley De Luca, 29, was later arrested and charged with three counts of theft from a motor vehicle.

De Luca, of Ivory Close, will appear before magistrates today.

Sniffer dogs had been brought in after the theft to carry out a search of the area and a number of items from the stolen bag were discovered.

Around 20 minutes earlier, the Ship Inn in Ospringe had also been broken into, but nothing was reported stolen.