A jetboat found wrecked and washed up on rocks at Storm Beach near Pauanui at the weekend was stolen from Tauranga on February 8.
A Tairua police spokesman said a man now in jail had tried to sink the near-new 4.5m fibreglass vessel but stormy seas had washed it ashore.
Stolen boat wrecked
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