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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1990
2 AGAINST A GROUP "THE POLICE ORGANISED AN OPERATION ON MAY
IN INVOLVED
THE THEFT OF
THE CARS WITH WHO WERE BELIEVED TO BE INTENTION OF SMUGGLING THE VEHICLES TO CHINA.
POLICE,
WITH THEIR
"THE OPERATION INVOLVED THE HIRE BY TWO MEMBERS OF THE WORKING UNDER COVER, OF A LIGHTER AND A TUGBOAT, TOGETHER FIVE-MAN CREW.
AT 8 PM SURROUNDING THE
"THE VESSELS WERE MOORED AT THE PIER AT TAP SHEK KOK ON MAY 2. AN AMBUSI WAS SET BY OTHER POLICE OFFICERS PIER.
"
"JUST AFTER 10 PM A SPEEDBOAT CAME TO THE SIDE OF THE OFFICIAL IN IT WERE FIVE MEN IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE CHINESE AND ONE MAN IN PLAIN CLOTHES.
LIGHTER. UNIFORM,
ARRIVAL
"THE LATTER BOARDED THE LIGHTER AND ENQUIRED ABOUT THE
THE SPEEDBOAT WHICH OF THE GOODS. AFTER HALF AN HOUR HE RETURNED TO DEPARTED.
MIDNIGHT AND THE "THE SPEEDBOAT SUBSEQUENTLY RETURNED AROUND
TELEPHONE CALLS WITH A SAME MAN AGAIN BOARDED THE LIGHTER. HE MADE
ON BOARD THE WIRELESS TELEPHONE. THE FIVE MEN IN UNIFORM WERE STILL SPEEDBOAT.
"THE SPEEDBOAT SURSEQUENTLY LEFT BUT RETURNED ONCE MORE 3 AM. SHORTLY AFTER 4 AM THREE MERCEDES BENZ CARS ARRIVED AT THE AND WERE LOADED ONTO THE LIGHTER,
AROUND PIER
"JUST AFTER 4.40 AM THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN IN BUT WAS BY NOW ALSO WEARING WHAT APPEARED TO BE AN GAVE THE ORDER TO SAIL: HE HIMSELF LEFT IN THE SPEEDBOAT.
CIVILIAN CLOTHES, OFFICIAL UNIFORM,
"FOUR OF THE PERSONNEL IN UNIFORM STAYED ON BOARD THE ON BOARD THE LIGHTER. AT LEAST ONE OF THEM WAS ARMED. ALSO
CREW AND THE TWO UNDERCOVER AND LIGHTER WERE THE FIVE-MAN
OFFICERS.
ARRESTED "AT 4.50 AM THE POLICE CONNECTION WITH THE THEFT OF THE CARS.
TUG AND THE TUG POLICE
THREE MEN
ON THE
PIER IN
THE WHEN THE
TUGBOAT
POLICE
POINTED
"SHORTLY AFTER 5 AM THE MARINE POLICE INTERCEPTED AND REQUESTED IT TO STOP. THIS REQUEST WAS REFUSED. LAUNCH SUBSEQUENTLY ATTEMPTED TO COME ALONGSIDE, A WEAPON WAS AT THE LAUNCH.
ALONGSIDE THE HONG
"AT ABOUT 5.50 AM KONG
A
CHINESE
CO-OPERATION FROM THE CHINESE VESSEL THIS WAS NOT FORTHCOMING,
INSPECTION POLICE LAUNCH. THE POLICE
STOPPING IN
THE
BORDER
VESSEL
LAUNCH
LIGHTER,
CAME SOUGHT
BUT
/"ON RECEIVING
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