Major jetski theft operation thwarted in TN

Heywood Jablomee · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

This is a story that is apearing in our local media today. It seems
that a pair of jetski thieves made the rounds Sunday night going up
and down our local waterways stealing unsecured PWC's right off the
dock's of the owners here in Bay area of Chattanooga, TN. What these
guys did was set up in an abandoned lakefront trailer and set out
stealing PWC's all night. They then stashed them all around Wolftever
Creek and hauled them out two at a time. I don't have all the details
yet, but various reports have stated that they actually got between 4
and 8 ski's hauled off before they were foiled. An early riser woke up
to find his ski missing at around 5:30 in the morning, and that's what
got the ball rolling. Reports started trickling in after that when
several other owners called their ski's in stolen. The sherrif's dept
sent some detectives out to investigate, and one noticed a truck and
trailer sitting at the abandoned trailer, and that was where it went
south for the duo. One was captured red-handed, and the other took off
towards the main channel on one of the stolen ski's and got away, for
now. Here are a couple of the media accounts below:

Monday, June 23, 2003 --- The Sheriff's Department says several calls
came into there office Monday morning about boats, mostly those small
Sea-Doo type watercraft, being stolen form private docks up and down
Wolftever Creek.

Detectives found one suspect in a old trailer on Wolftever Trail but a
second escaped by taking off on one of the stolen Sea-Doo's.

Deputies were busy most of the day today rounding up the boats which
were found all up and down the creek.

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Monday June 23---Hamilton County deputies say they have recovered at
least five stolen watercraft so far, found floating in and around the
Wolftever area. The calls from boat theft victims started trickling in
at around 5:30 Monday morning.

Investigators tracked the pair of suspected thieves to an abandoned
trailer around noon at a Wolftever Trail address. One suspect escaped
on a stolen Sea-Doo down the channel, the other captured and taken to
the Hamilton County Jail, booked on a number of theft related charges.

Boat owners say they have never encountered such a problem before, and
plan on installing lights on their

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Tiger · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

It's just a shame, their sentencing is going to be lenient. I F@#$ing HATE
theives! I think we should go back to old times and cut people hands off
for stealing.

"Heywood Jablomee" wrote in message@posting.google.com...
> This is a story that is apearing in our local media today. It seems
> that a pair of jetski thieves made the rounds Sunday night going up
> and down our local waterways stealing unsecured PWC's right off the
> dock's of the owners here in Bay area of Chattanooga, TN. What these
> guys did was set up in an abandoned lakefront trailer and set out
> stealing PWC's all night. They then stashed them all around Wolftever
> Creek and hauled them out two at a time. I don't have all the details
> yet, but various reports have stated that they actually got between 4
> and 8 ski's hauled off before they were foiled. An early riser woke up
> to find his ski missing at around 5:30 in the morning, and that's what
> got the ball rolling. Reports started trickling in after that when
> several other owners called their ski's in stolen. The sherrif's dept
> sent some detectives out to investigate, and one noticed a truck and
> trailer sitting at the abandoned trailer, and that was where it went
> south for the duo. One was captured red-handed, and the other took off
> towards the main channel on one of the stolen ski's and got away, for
> now. Here are a couple of the media accounts below:
>
>
>
> Monday, June 23, 2003 --- The Sheriff's Department says several calls
> came into there office Monday morning about boats, mostly those small
> Sea-Doo type watercraft, being stolen form private docks up and down
> Wolftever Creek.
>
> Detectives found one suspect in a old trailer on Wolftever Trail but a
> second escaped by taking off on one of the stolen Sea-Doo's.
>
> Deputies were busy most of the day today rounding up the boats which
> were found all up and down the creek.
>
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>
>
>
> Monday June 23---Hamilton County deputies say they have recovered at
> least five stolen watercraft so far, found floating in and around the
> Wolftever area. The calls from boat theft victims started trickling in
> at around 5:30 Monday morning.
>
> Investigators tracked the pair of suspected thieves to an abandoned
> trailer around noon at a Wolftever Trail address. One suspect escaped
> on a stolen Sea-Doo down the channel, the other captured and taken to
> the Hamilton County Jail, booked on a number of theft related charges.
>
> Boat owners say they have never encountered such a problem before, and
> plan on installing lights on their

PWCFRAZIER · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 35

>but a
>second escaped by taking off on one of the stolen Sea-Doo's.

I am glad the caught him. I do have to confess, though, that it would be quite
a kick to try and run from the cops on a PWC.