Strange happenings in the street

[CanadaMoose91]

I live on a fairly small Close with only 14 houses, so traffic is minimal. Only the residents park here and it's a very family friendly area in the Midlands.

For the past few nights around 10:30-2:00, I have been hearing cars and relatively quiet closing of doors in the street. DH and I have noticed a large white van (no windows) coming only at night, and we really though nothing of it until tonight.

At around 10:35 tonight, a car pulled up beside the van and a man got out with a flashlight on his phone. I know I sound like a busybody, but it was odd, so I watched from the window - the man walked to the van, unlocked it, sat in it with the door open for a few minutes and then got out, locked the door, went back to the car, and did the same thing with both the driver and passenger seat of the car. He did this multiple times between the car and the van, for nearly 25 minutes, then went into my neighbour's house (he is not my neighbour, though she did open her door to him without speaking). Throughout all of this, he was shining his flashligh around and looking at upper-level windows of all the houses around.

Should I be concerned about myself? Should I be concerned about my neighbour? Should I be ringing police? Or AIBU and need to go to sleep?

Maybe shifting stolen gear?

I meant to encourage your surveillance op last night OP, but I fell asleep. Any developments?

New people moved into the newly renovated rental adjoining semi at my MIL's. She mentioned a lot of activity and noise (DIY sounds, sawing, hammering, etc) going on until late in the evening. But otherwise little sign of the occupants living there. A few months later she rang us to say the police were there dismantling a cannabis factory.

We live in a quiet cul de sac in a small village next to the motorway, one day I came home and noticed a white BMW sitting, don't normally get unusual cars up here unless visitors etc, anyway it sat all day night and the next day and night so I asked some of the others living here and no one knew anything about it

Had a look around the car and it was a little rough looking with no number plate on front, rear view mirror ripped off etc it all just seemed wrong so I went onto DVLA reg checker and the number plate wasn't even for that car it was for a transit van!

I phoned the police who came out and were all over it trying to get in looking around the fields etc then it got taken away, police said it was likely a drugs car used for taking high amounts of drugs up and down the motorway and was prob waiting on the next drop off!

It was my best Miss marple moment yet!

@CanadaMoose91 any update?