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Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008 Seven years later, stolen car found in Gunners Lake Boater spotted Honda while fishing by Meghan Tierney | Staff Writer
Crews pulled a silver 1997 Honda Accord from Gunners Lake in Germantown on Sunday afternoon. The four-door car with Maryland tags was reported stolen on Nov. 6, 2001, from in front of the owner's home on Halethorpe Lane in Germantown, according to police.
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A car stolen seven years ago was discovered at the bottom of Gunners Lake in Germantown Sunday morning by a boater who spotted something strange in the water.
A fisherman saw the roof of the silver 1997 Honda Accord, marked it with a floatation device and called authorities around 11:30 a.m., according to Montgomery County Police spokeswoman Lucille Baur and Montgomery County Fire Rescue Services spokesman Pete Piringer. Fire rescue's dive team came to the 12300 block of Wisteria Drive spent the next several hours pulling the car out of the Germantown lake, Piringer said.
The four-door car with Maryland tags was reported stolen on Nov. 6, 2001, Baur said. The car was stolen from in front of the owner's home on Halethorpe Lane in Germantown, less than three miles from Gunners Lake, according to Capt. Thomas Didone, commander of county police's 5th District station.
The boater told police it was not the first time he had spotted the car, Didone said.
Erie Insurance Group of Erie, Pa., has the salvage rights to the car because it made payment to the owner 30 days after the vehicle was reported stolen, Baur said. The case will be forwarded to police's auto theft section to see if further investigation is possible, she said.
"Because of the length of time, it would be unusual for us to make a determination of who stole the car or when it was placed in the lake," Baur said.
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