Go-fast boat thefts slow down in Collier, but there goes another one

By RYAN MILLS (Contact)
Originally published 5:31 p.m., Saturday, March 7, 2009
Updated 5:31 p.m., Saturday, March 7, 2009

DAVID ALBERS / Daily News



Cpl. Susan Dailey, of the Lee County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit, tickets Cape Coral resident Richard Herbert for an expired registration on his personal watercraft in the Matlacha Pass Acquatic Preserve on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. With boat thefts in Florida increasing by 30 percent in 2007, law enforcement officials relied heavily on boat registration checks to police boating activity.

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