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Police are yet to make an arrest following a ram raid at the NZ Diving shop in Morrison Drive on November 4, “but are following positive lines of enquiry”.
The thieves made off with more than $20,000 worth of stock, mainly spearguns, wetsuits, masks and buoyancy control devices (BCDs). Owner Neil Bennett says they knew what they were doing.
“We’d only just taken delivery of new stock and that’s what they targeted.
They were very specific.” The raid involved two cars, including one car that had been stolen locally and later dumped in Helensville. It also followed a similar incident on a dive shop in the Bay of Islands.
Police were provided with extensive CCTV footage of the raid, plus a witness was helping with their enquiries.
