Crime & Safety
Unmanned Jet Ski Found Circling Reynolds Channel
Police search for a possible operator of the watercraft.
* This story was updated at 12:13 a.m. on 9.4.13.
The Nassau County Police Department’s Marine Bureau and the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a possible missing person in Reynolds Channel after an unmanned Jet Ski was found circling the waters in the bay early Wednesday morning.
Lt. Eric Cregeen, a spokesman for the Long Beach Police Department, told Patch that a commuter on the Long Island Rail Road, at about 6:30 a.m., spotted the runaway Jet Ski in the bay, near the Wreck Lead Bridge. The LBPD notified the county Marine Bureau about the incident.
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“The marine bureau was able to get the Jet Ski under control,” said Cregeen, who said that the investigators determined that the watercraft’s ignition was “popped.”
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Police tracked the Jet Ski’s registration number back to its owner, a Long Beach resident, who docks it in Island Park near Pop’s, a restaurant-bar on the bay.
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“We got a hold of the registered owner and he was fine, and the last time he saw the Jet Ski it was intact,” Cregeen said. “ … As far as he knew it was safely docked at port.”
As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, Cregeen said the Marine Bureau and Coast Guard were continuing their search for a possible operator of the Jet Ski.
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