Stealing Steel

[Hum]

UNIONTOWN, PA (AP) ? State police have charged four former employees with stealing $599,000 worth of rolled stainless steel from a southwestern Pennsylvania duct work firm.

Troopers from the Uniontown barracks contends the workers, all former shop foremen or managers at Hranec (huh-RAN'-ek) Sheet Metal Inc. would load up the metal at night and sell it for scrap.

Police say they did that to the tune of $130,000 which they collected from a nearby metal salvage company in dozens of incidents between June 2009 and May 2011.

Online court records don't list attorneys for the men: 25-year-old Timothy Smouse, of Greensburg; and 30-year-old Kenny Keener, 26-year-old Timothy Devince, and 33-year-old Robert Showman, all of Uniontown.

Police say Smouse and Keener were arraigned on theft charges Tuesday. Warrants have been issued for the other suspects.

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[jnelsoninjax]

Bet they did not see that they were going to get caught either!

[Raa]

Those boys certainly had nerves of steel...

[Growled Member]

Times are hard everywhere these days.

[Hum]

I wonder if anyone really gets away with stealing that much metal ....

[Growled Member]

You know, these guys can't be too bright since they stole $599,000 worth of metal and only sold it for $130,000.

[jnelsoninjax]

You know, these guys can't be too bright since they stole $599,000 worth of metal and only sold it for $130,000.

Failed math in school, resulting in them having to steal steel! :D

[moloko]

scrap steel is worth less that new steel. So what the stole was worth more than what they can sell it for. Copper is another thing that is easy to steal and sell.

[mokthraka]

Scrap is easy to get legally. My friend made a ton of money in high school collecting washer machines and other scrap.

[Hum]

Copper is another thing that is easy to steal and sell.

Tell that to those who got electrocuted. :laugh:

[moloko]

Tell that to those who got electrocuted. :laugh:

You can get copper from pipes in bulidings and houses being constructed. No power sources to that copper.

[Tha Bloo Monkee]

You know, these guys can't be too bright since they stole $599,000 worth of metal and only sold it for $130,000.

It would've been $130,000 profit if they had gotten away with it too :rofl:

$599 k is probably the retail price.