WPD Catches Outboard Motor Thief After Victim Sets Up Meeting on Craigslist

WARWICK, RI — As Warwick officers were taking a report of the theft of a short shaft outboard motor worth $1,000 from a local back yard Aug. 29 , the owner’s wife had located it for sale on Craigslist.com and arranged to meet the thief to buy it, where undercover detectives arrested the culprit.