It wasn't a movie, Cops commandeer boat to catch alleged crook

Cops commandeer boat to catch alleged crook
By Keith Niebuhr, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jul 23, 2009 04:13 PM


CLEARWATER — The first day with his new boat was going just as Mike Parker had planned.

He left his home in The Villages in Central Florida at dawn Thursday. Once in Clearwater, he took his 22-foot Century Center Console for a spin in the Gulf of Mexico. But when Parker brought the boat back to the Seminole Boat Ramp, things got weird.

In a flash, six Clearwater police officers not only had boarded the vessel but used it to capture a man wanted for grand theft.

"The cops christened the boat," said Parker, 65.
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Cops commandeer boat to catch alleged crook