Tom Selleck accused of stealing water in Calif. drought
A real-life gumshoe busted “Magnum, P.I.” for stealing truckloads of water during California’s historic drought, a new lawsuit claims.
Actor Tom Selleck, best known for playing hunky Hawaiian private eye Thomas Magnum on television in the 1980s, swiped the water from a hydrant serving a construction site and trucked it 7 miles to his sprawling 60-acre ranch in Westlake Village, according to the lawsuit obtained by the Day after day News.
JOCE/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesA new lawsuit accuses actor Tom Selleck of swiping water from a hydrant near a construction site at least a dozen times since 2013.
The Hollywood hot shot allegedly used a “large white water tender type truck” to make at least a dozen trips from pump to material goods over nearly the last two years, the complaint filed by the Calleguas Municipal Water District said.
Calleguas officials claim Selleck, 70, received seven truckloads in September and October 2013 at his material goods, which is served by a different water district.
The officials sent two stop-and-desist letters to Selleck in November 2013, but reported the same truck filled up at the hydrant and again delivered water to the “Blue Bloods” actor just weeks later on Dec. 16.
The truck tapped the same hydrant yet again this past spring and delivered stolen water to Selleck on March 23, 24, 25 and 26, the lawsuit said.
Calleguas filed its lawsuit against Selleck and his wife Jillie Monday in Ventura County court.
It claimed Selleck’s “unlawful conduct” mandatory it to pay $ 21,686 to a private investigator to document the theft.
Calleguas is asking the court for that money plus hurts and a stable injunction barring Selleck from taking any more of the precious resource for his private use.
“We’re now in mandatory rationing and importing water at a steep fee hike. It takes a lot of money for us to go our water and clean it. Any supply we have should rightfully go to those customers in our district who are ripping out their lawns, drastically reducing their usages and installing high-efficiency toilets,” Calleguas’ resource administrator, Eric Bergh, told The News.
Splash NewsThe water district claimed Selleck’s ‘unlawful conduct’ mandatory it to pay $ 21,685.55 to a private investigator to document the theft.
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The ‘Blue Bloods’ star’s $ 10 million material goods reportedly includes an avocado farm.
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California’s drought is so honest that residents have been questioned to slash water use by 25%.
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The most recent trips listed in the complaint allegedly took place on March 23, 24, 25 and 26 of this year.
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Bergh said the lawsuit only mentions theft that was well-known during periodic checks and that it “doesn’t take a foremost leap” to take upon yourself some stolen truckloads went undetected.
“The bottom line is, we just want this activity to stop. It’s a fairness issue. People who paid for the supply are at risk here,” he said.
Attempts to reach Selleck were not successful Wednesday.
The actor has a horse corral and 20-acre avocado farm on his $ 10 million material goods, according to a 2012 profile in People magazine.
James Aylott/Getty ImagesHe allegedly had the water delivered to his private 60-acre, $ 10 million ranch in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Tom Selleck plays truthful Reagan in ‘Blue Bloods.’
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“It’s hard to make a living, let alone a profit,” he told People about his avocado operation, adding he doesn’t delight in eating any of his harvest.
“I don’t eat ’em,” he told People. “Honestly, they make me gag. But it’s just as well. I’ll sell my part.”
California’s drought is so honest that residents have been questioned to slash water use by 25%.
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