Posted on 11/03/2015 8:04:15 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA - Channel 11's Joe Holden confirmed Monday that a regional maintenance supervisor for Allegheny County Region 1 has been charged with theft and receiving stolen property.
According to the criminal complaint, James Schrott is accused of stealing more than 11,000 pounds of aluminum signs. County police said the signage is valued at more than $21,000.
Schrott has been suspended without pay, a county spokeswoman said.
The criminal complaint named Steven Beswick as Schrott's accomplice.
According to arrest papers, county workers set up a sting and were able to track the aluminum to a local scrap yard.
Investigators said Schrott admitted to stealing the aluminum signs.
Maybe $4k?
Sign of the times in Agony County, Taxsilvania!
Tin Foil Hat Alert!
There must be a conspiracy in there somewhere?
Scrap yards are pits of criminal activity. Someone shows up with 11,000 lbs of aluminum signs and no one bats an eye.
Well I am shocked! SHOCKED!
Wonder if all the signs were Republican campaign signs.
Does he have to pay the money back?
That’s gonna make a lotta beer cans..............or a new Ford F-150 truck body........................
da burgh
in our machine “job” shop we actually had an employee steal an exotic bronze raw material coil BEFORE it was issued to the machine, to make into parts...it still had the shipping tags on it....Our boss scoured the local scrap yards and finally found it 30 miles away.....to our advantage the yard had video of who dropped it off & we had him arrested...oh yeah - the kids job was material handler, so the missing material was his responsibility anyway...he would have been fired just for that LOL
At least if he loses that gig he will be able to apply for a Federal Job since they don’t care about past crimes on his application.
Another guy.....a friend of a friend of a friend....city employee who went down in a bid rigging scam involving an auto auction of city-impounded vehicles. Plea bargained out of jail time and word on the street is the Corruptacrat Party has already got him another job, with the county this time.
Suspended WITHOUT pay? This must be SERIES!
Shouldn’t we give him an award for recycling?
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I worked for the State of Alaska DOT for 25 years and our shop foreman was caught stealing diesel fuel for his home furnace. He had been doing it for years and was fired but not charged with any crime. He was also a big mouth liberal and Clinton lover so it was just deserts as far as I was concerned.
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