Thursday, June 16, 2011

Arrest In Copper Theft

The Thomaston Police Department responded to a report of a smoke odor on C Street Tuesday morning and discovered a transformer belonging to the City of Thomaston that had been stripped of copper and burned.

Officers located the resident at 110 C Street, 29 year old Jason Daniel Gish who admitted to taking the transformer and selling the stripped copper to Teal Recycling. Gish was arrested and charged with felony theft of government property. The transformer was valued at $1,100.00.

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