tenacious
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- I just don't log dives
Over this past weekend numerous dive shops were victims of a gang of thieves. I heard the stores range from the Keys on up the coast. In my local area, Force E Dive Center, Calypso Dive Charters, Jim Abernethy Dive Charters, Jupiter Dive Center, Stuart, Scubaworks were all victims. They tried to hit "Brownies" in palm beach today for a hooka system.
There were male and female suspects who used fraudulent credit cards and outright snatch/grab shoplifting techniques. They drove a black pick-up truck, a black ferrari with Colorado plates and a black land rover in separate but apparently coordinated attacks on merchants in our local diving communities taking everything from Gopro cameras, hooka systems, and scuba regulators.
The best lead we have is this image below of a suspect who is described as a hispanic male about 6 feet tall weighing 250 pounds and with no visible tattoos and no facial hair. His "wife" is also Hispanic, around 275lbs, with BLUE eyes.
He spoke with a Dominican accent according to one victim witness. The name on the card and drivers license is Samuel Villa (which may be fake). The drivers license was from a northern state like Connecticut or Massachusetts. He appeared to have some knowledge of scuba diving according to one witness. He has told some of the shops that he is sending the gear to Venezuela.
just throwing it out there so you don't become victims.
There were male and female suspects who used fraudulent credit cards and outright snatch/grab shoplifting techniques. They drove a black pick-up truck, a black ferrari with Colorado plates and a black land rover in separate but apparently coordinated attacks on merchants in our local diving communities taking everything from Gopro cameras, hooka systems, and scuba regulators.
The best lead we have is this image below of a suspect who is described as a hispanic male about 6 feet tall weighing 250 pounds and with no visible tattoos and no facial hair. His "wife" is also Hispanic, around 275lbs, with BLUE eyes.
He spoke with a Dominican accent according to one victim witness. The name on the card and drivers license is Samuel Villa (which may be fake). The drivers license was from a northern state like Connecticut or Massachusetts. He appeared to have some knowledge of scuba diving according to one witness. He has told some of the shops that he is sending the gear to Venezuela.
just throwing it out there so you don't become victims.
