From your article Velveeta, I see there is a reward offered in this case.
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"Boat stolen from Hudson, stripped"
By GERALD MCKINSTRY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
Reward offered
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The couple whose $200,000 boat was stolen and stripped are offering a $1,000 reward for information. Call the Piermont police at 845-359-0240."
(Original publication: October 4, 2006)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: PIERMONT — Police are investigating a case of piracy on the waterfront, and a village boat owner fears the scallywags may strike again.
The new 32-foot Century Walk Around fishing cruiser belonging to Nancy Lucianna and her husband, Bob Biroc, disappeared over the weekend from the waters near their home while they were sleeping. It was later found far down the Hudson River, picked clean."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It was found by the New York Police Department's Marine Unit at 11 a.m. Saturday, floating near the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, O'Shea said.
"It was cannibalized," Lucianna said after she viewed the 2006 boat at an impound area at Randall's Island and saw that it had been stripped of the seats, fittings and its pair of 800-pound engines. "It was just a fiberglass shell.""
REPORT SNIPPET - QUOTE:
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
Weekly Piracy Report
26 September-2 October 2006
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 26 September to 2 October 2006.
ALERT
Chittagong anchorage, Bangladesh
Thirty three incidents have been reported since 28.01.2006. Pirates are targeting ships preparing to anchor. Ships are advised to take extra precautions.
The IMB Report on Piracy and Armed Attacks on Ships from January to June 2006 is now published. Please see the end of this page to order.
Suspicious crafts
None reported during the week.
Recently reported incidents
02.10.2006 in posn 15:24.82N - 066:21.62E, Arabian Sea.
Two fishing boats came close to a bulk carrier underway and persons inside tried to board. Vessel increased speed and boats stop following.
01.10.2006 at 0300 LT in posn 05:52.8S - 106:04.15E, Sulfindo Jetty, Indonesia.
Four robbers in a motorboat approached a bulk carrier at port quarter during cargo operations and three robbers boarded. D/0 raised alarm and crew mustered. Robbers jumped overboard and escaped empty handed.
01.10.2006 at 0523 UTC in posn 24:05.5S - 046:21.5W, Santos outer anchorage area no.4, Brazil.
Eight robbers wearing black clothes came alongside a container ship at port side and one robber boarded. D/O raised alarm, sounded whistle and crew mustered and the robber escaped.
24.09.2006 at Visakhapatnam anchorage, India.
Robbers boarded a bulk carrier and stole engine spares. Incident was reported to authorities.
AP reporting of FBI raids at two spinach packaging companies in Salinas, CA this morning.
Mad deer disease (chronic wasting syndrome) may be spread by saliva
Snippets: Deer probably spread a brain-destroying illness called chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit.
Proving that saliva is able to spread CWD is important, so that scientists next can determine exactly how that happens in the wild, said Richard T. Johnson, a Johns Hopkins University neurology professor who headed a major report on prion science.
"You can move deer out of a pasture, put other deer into the pasture, and they'll come down with the disease. It's not even casual contact, it's contact with the pasture," Johnson said. "It must be something in their secretions."
Is it spread through shared salt licks? Or by drooling onto grass or into streams? Studying environmental contamination by infectious proteins, called prions, that cause CWD is among Hoover's next steps.
"It's very likely they could be shedding a lot of saliva" shortly before death, noted Richard Race, a veterinarian who studies CWD at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratories. "Saliva's a good bet."