Police from Nowe Miasto (Mazowieckie) detained a 32-year-old and two teenagers who – as they explained – borrowed a boat moored on the bank of the Wkra. After finishing the cruise, they let it float downstream and went to the city. They were all drunk.
Police officers from Płock received a report of the theft of a wooden boat belonging to a resident of the Sochocin commune. – When the man went to the Wkra to go fishing, he did not find the boat in the place where he had previously securely moored it with a chain to a steel pole – informed the spokeswoman of the District Police Headquarters in Płońsk, Kinga Drężek-Zmysłowska.
The owner of the boat learned from the fishermen that a dozen or so minutes earlier they had seen a kayak floating down the river, and right behind it a boat, in which two people were using kayak paddles. The reporting party, together with police officers from the Nowe Miasto police station sent to the scene, drove to the area of the nearest bridge and marina. From a distance they noticed the kayak and boat, as well as three men who were behaving loudly.
They let the boat go down the river
As added by Commissioner Drężek-Zmysłowska, the participants of the cruise swam to the shore before the bridge, got out of the boat and kayak, and then went towards the buildings, while they let the empty boat float downstream. It turned out that they were 32, 18 and 15 years old, residents of Płońsk district. They were all drunk.
The detainees explained to the officers that “they went on a kayaking trip, and when they noticed a boat moored at the shore, they came up with the idea of borrowing it.”
The police handed over the 15-year-old, the youngest participant of the trip, to his parents. The family and juvenile court will make a decision in his case. In turn, the 32- and 18-year-old were charged with burglary, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
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