Gas Crime
“We encourage people to call us whenever a crime is committed,” she said. “Getting a more complete picture will enable us to do something about it.”
Some people are taking matters into their own hands. At least five people come in daily to Ken’s Auto Parts Store in Arcata to purchase locking gas caps, said employee Patrick Keller. In fact, he sells so many locking gas caps in his store that the distributor is consistently back-stocked.
Keller said that none of the customers have “too bad of an attitude” about their gas being siphoned, though. “No one’s too mad,” he said with a smile from behind the counter on South G Street. “It happens.”
It happens, all right. Keller was still smiling as he described someone siphoning gas from his own work truck, outside his home in McKinleyville.
“I thought, wow, I just had a half tank in there.” he said. “What happened?” Again, Keller didn’t report the crime to the police.
Godsey encourages any victim of a gas crime, small or large, to call the police. Doing so will help accurately identify criminal patterns and ultimately stop it. “Many people think that calling us won’t matter,” she said. “But if it is happening to you it is probably happening to your neighbor.”
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