Diving Boards Stolen
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Warsaw police and park officials are miffed by the loss of two diving boards from community parks over the last five days.
Saturday, park workers discovered a 14-foot fiberglass board was missing from Center Lake pier. Tuesday, the Warsaw Police Department received a call reporting that another diving board had been stolen from Pike Lake Park.
Dive teams were assigned to search underneath both piers to determine whether the boards had been removed and dropped into the water, but both searches came up empty.
According to police reports, WPD patrolmen were in Center Lake Park until 11 p.m. on the night that the first board was stolen. Over the last month, police activity increased inside the park to limit suspicious activity in the area.
Park Department Administrator Jon Garber said he could not determine if the thefts were in retaliation to the additional police units supervising the park.
Eyewitnesses also reported seeing the Pike Lake diving board the night before it was stolen. The board allegedly was stolen between 2 and 6 a.m. Tuesday.
"Both were stolen in the middle of the night," Garber said. "It takes four guys to carry one of those things. I'm surprised no one heard or saw anything." [[In-content Ad]]
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Warsaw police and park officials are miffed by the loss of two diving boards from community parks over the last five days.
Saturday, park workers discovered a 14-foot fiberglass board was missing from Center Lake pier. Tuesday, the Warsaw Police Department received a call reporting that another diving board had been stolen from Pike Lake Park.
Dive teams were assigned to search underneath both piers to determine whether the boards had been removed and dropped into the water, but both searches came up empty.
According to police reports, WPD patrolmen were in Center Lake Park until 11 p.m. on the night that the first board was stolen. Over the last month, police activity increased inside the park to limit suspicious activity in the area.
Park Department Administrator Jon Garber said he could not determine if the thefts were in retaliation to the additional police units supervising the park.
Eyewitnesses also reported seeing the Pike Lake diving board the night before it was stolen. The board allegedly was stolen between 2 and 6 a.m. Tuesday.
"Both were stolen in the middle of the night," Garber said. "It takes four guys to carry one of those things. I'm surprised no one heard or saw anything." [[In-content Ad]]