Actor Tom Selleck has been accused of stealing truckloads of water from a public hydrant to help keep his 60-acre California ranch and avocado farm looking lush amid record drought.
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A white water tender truck was was used to pilfer water from a Ventura County water district’s fire hydrant.but in the complaint filed by the Calleguas Municipal water District, the utility points the finger at “Magnum P.I star, Tom Selleck“. A private investigator hired by the Calleguas district says Selleck has been stealing water in this manner for at least two years.
Representatives for Selleck did not return messages seeking comment Wednesday. However, several months later after the district learned about a law that bans transferring potable water outside a district’s boundaries and told Selleck to stop taking water from the hydrant.
Ventura County sheriff’s Capt. John Riley told NBC News authorities have conducted their own investigation but “we were unable to establish a crime was committed”. The area where Selleck has his land is under mandatory cutbacks as high as 36 percent.
The water district said in fall 2013 it saw a water truck fill up in Thousand Oaks seven times and deliver to “the Hidden Valley area where the Selleck property is located”, according to the lawsuit cited by Courthouse News Service.
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The district claims it sent Selleck cease-and-desist letters aimed at halting the unlawful water deliveries, but the truck was spotted as recently as March filling up at the hydrant on four days and delivering water to the ranch.
