Stolen trip engine Jupiter, Key Largo

[Murphinator]

Glad they caught them. Its a shame there are people doing crap like that, and it appears that the number is growing. I worry for our children and grandchildren about the alarming rate of moral decay in our country. Hope we can turn it around.

Put the bad guys on a remote island in the Pacific with the clothes on their back and a pocket full of beans and let them rob from one another. Then the tax payers don't have to house them. They can grow their own beans or eat one another I don't care.

[ScarabChris]

Fortunately the real cops caught these guys. Thanks go to the neighbors who alerted the sheriff's office to come out.

It is just another part of living near Miami and its large Cuban immigrant community. These thieves have knowledge of the coast of Cuba and the contacts there and in Miami to hookup for some big bucks by smuggling people. They also have no overhead other than loading up the stolen boats with drums of fuel. Pure crooks who don't even reinvest their profits into buying their own boats. Just go steal someone elses.

They don't even care about their passengers. Some have suffered fatal injuries in rough crossings.

These guys are pure scum. Wish we could send them to a Cuban jail for about 50 years.

Last summer we had huge numbers of outboard thefts here in the Keys. Lower units were prime targets, especially those from v-6 Yamahas their favorites. One key tip for the cops is a Dade county license tag prowling a neighborhood, although most of the pro thiefs now buy the "vanity" plates that have no county origin. I called the cops twice last year for prowlers checking out my neighbors boats. The cops responded but not quick enough. The cops here do take that kind of thing seriously.

My neighbor with a brand new 4 stroke 250 Yamaha left for a couple months last summer. He lowered his davits where there wasn't enough clearance for the lower unit to be dropped and then he removed the boat battery and turned the breaker off on his davits at the panel inside his house. No problems.

There's plenty of low life immigrants in Dade county that want to immediately be wealthy off others hard work. They're not willing to work and be part of the legitimate hard working people who came here for the American dream.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I almost hope to catch one of these losers stealing my boat so I can make an example of them. I assure you there will be no tax payers money wasted on a trial and jail time.