_ 1000 Bass Pro Dr.: Police were called to the Bass Pro Shops Saturday morning regarding a theft. According to a police report, officers spoke with the manager of the store who said that sometime overnight someone had stolen an engine off a boat that was parked in front of the store. The engine was secured to the boat with a locking cable, the report states. The thief cut the cable and the engine was simply unscrewed from the transom of the boat.
The report noted that this particular section of the store /parking lot is out of view of the video surveillance system. Officers followed muddy tire tracks from the boat out into a nearby field next door and found a John Deere Gator. The report states that the vehicle had a considerable amount of mud on it and was believed to have been used in the commission of the theft. Further investigation revealed the Gator may belong to Ooltewah Nursery. Calls to Ooltewah Nursery to establish ownership of the vehicle were fruitless.
The manager of Bass Pro told officers that another boat on the south side of the property had been moved, but it was undamaged. The boat engine was entered into a law enforcement data base as stolen.
According to the report, later in the day the manager of the store contacted police. He provided investigators with some video footage of a white male driving a red pick-up truck hauling a large enclosed trailer on the lot on two separate occasions. The same person was seen driving north on Camp Jordan Parkway and parking near an entrance that’s being constructed just down from Bass Pro Shops, then leaving. The manager is attempting to obtain additional video to assist in the investigation, the report states.
_ 6119 Schofield Ave.: Police were called to the address early Thursday morning in regard to vandalism. According to a police report, when officers arrived they spoke with a man who said that someone used a hammer to shatter the windshield of his 1997 Mitsubishi 3000GT that was parked on the street next to his house. Police saw the shattered windshield and the point of impact had a hole about the diameter of a hammerhead. A red claw hammer was laying on the windshield, the report states.
The victim told police that he came home the previous night at about 10:30 p.m. and the vehicle’s windshield was intact at that time. The victim told police that he suspects an acquaintance who has animosity toward him is responsible for inflicting the damage. The victim said the acquaintance has a history of vandalizing vehicles in this manner.
