Cliff Buchan
News EditorThieves expended extra effort last week to make off with a custom-made fishhouse valued at $6800 last week.
Officials of D.R. Martineau Construction, 21400 Forest Blvd. N. told Forest Lake police they arrived at work Friday morning to find one of the finished ice houses missing.
The fishhouse had been chained through its trailer tires, but police speculate the thieves removed the house from the tires and fitted the house with new tires to haul it away.
ìThese guys knew what they were doing,î police investigator Rick Peterson said. The custom-made fishhouse had a finely designed interior and was white with black trim.
Anyone with information about the stolen property is asked to call police at 651-464-5877.
Other reports
In other reports, police here are:
ïInvestigating the theft of three license plates from three vehicles in separate incidents during the past week.
A Forest Lake man said a rear license plate from his vehicle was taken between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m. from the parking lot at Applebeeís on May 4 while a North Branch man said the front plate from his vehicle was missing at 4:05 p.m. Monday when he returned to his vehicle in the parking lot at Norman Quackís, 834 W. Broadway Ave.
The first theft of a license plate was made by a Hudson, WI, man who said a plate from his vehicle was taken on April 30 from Lakes Transmission Service, 43 SW 6th Ave., where the vehicle was being repaired.
Police speculate the stolen plates are being used on stolen vehicles.
ïInvestigating vandalism and damage to property at Messiah Lutheran Church, 807 Scandia Trail N. (TH-97) where a church sign for the Montessori school was cut down and an axe or hatchet was used to damage playground equipment. The incidents took place Sunday evening, police said.
ïInvestigating vandalism to vehicle reports, including one in the 800 block of SW 9th Ave. on May 3 where three tires on a vehicle were punctured.
ïInvestigating vandalism to a home in the 400 block of SW 2nd Ave. and vandalism to the north-side windows of the Central Learning Center, 200 SW 4th St. where home and school windows were hit with blue-colored paint balls late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
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