Police Notebook: Kids steal school bus from Western Heights Primary School
By Alice GuyReporter, Rotorua Daily Post·Rotorua Daily Post·
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Save Senior Sergeant Dennis Murphy says there has been an increase in thefts from cars and properties. Photo/File
On Friday night, two 13-year-olds stole a school bus from Western Heights Primary School.
Senior Sergeant Dennis Murphy of Rotorua police said they broke into a locked garage on the school grounds.
"They then drove it through the [closed] garage door."
Neighbours who were alerted by the noise called the
police.
Murphy said police apprehended two teenagers a short while later after the bus had been driven 50-60m across the school grounds.