Police in Counties Manukau South have located a stolen boat and returned it to its rightful owners, before they even realised it was gone.
Yesterday, Police received information that a boat and trailer were at an address on Dominion Road, Tuakau.
Counties Manukau South Area Prevention Manager, Inspector Matt Hoyes, says officers attended the address where they spoke to a number of people and established the boat didn’t belong to anyone there.
“Staff have run the registration and discovered the boat had not been reported as stolen.
“Police phoned the registered owner of the boat who advised it was at his house in Hamilton, however upon checking while on the phone with Police he discovered it was gone.”
Inspector Hoyes says Police established the boat was taken from an address in Flagstaff, Hamilton in the past 24 hours.
“It’s a fantastic outcome that we’ve been able to recover this boat and return it to its rightful owner.
“Police have zero tolerance for these types of crimes in our community and will continue to work hard to hold people to account for their actions.”
Police are following positive lines of enquiry to locate the person believed to be responsible for the theft.
Odd as it may sound people take stuff, spend the day using it, then leave it somewhere or return it with no one the wiser.
Well I used to work as a business development manager and sold things to companies but that was my job……I was paid to do it.
Cuzzy Bro needed to borrow it for fishing / feeding the extended Whanau…after all, the National Party has all but devastated the economy and pulled benefits…hell, those who are autistic and own homes no longer qualify for bennies, thanks to Zionist Luxon!
Caught a few undersized fishies and crays for protein???
Or… (heaven forbid!) used the landing net to pick up or transfer from another ‘borrowed’ boat those kilograms of floating packages that were spotted near the ‘foreshore and seabed’.
One boat owner in another country experienced several boat thefts over 5 years.
The thieves were blatant about their activities to the victim until one day-
He finally rigged-up a booby trap / bomb that he could detonate via mobile phone (when they first came out…) or via a hand-held detonation device.
6 weeks later, his 5th boat went missing.
There were then reports of a mysterious boat explosion and fire at sea within sight of land…
Insurance once again paid for the stolen boat, and he never had another boat stolen again.
Guess he got the right pirates / thieves!