Abbeville Police Chief is asking everyone to protect/lock their ATVs

Abbeville Chief of Police Mike Hardy is reminding residents to secure ATVs properly.
Hardy made the reminder after Councilman Carlton Campbell brought up an issue during a recent Abbeville City Council meeting.
“I’m getting a lot of complaints about kids riding four-wheelers on the streets at 3 and 4 in the morning,” Campbell said during his commentary at the meeting on Nov. 21. “It’s creating a disturbance. They asked that you look at that for them.”
Hardy said he is well aware of the issue.
“It’s one of busiest things we have right now,” Hardy said.
Not only are the ATVs being ridden in the city, Hardy said one of the main problems is how some subjects are coming into possession of the vehicles.
“They’re stealing a lot of four-wheelers and small motorcycles,” Hardy said. “We have recovered a lot.”
Hardy said some of the vehicles that have been recovered in city are from outside the city limits.
“Some of them are from out of town,” Hardy said.
Keeping the vehicles properly stored is important, the chief stressed.
“Some owners don’t keep them under lock and key,” Hardy said. “They just keep them in the yard. They steal them by hot-wiring them.”