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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.

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