These people need to be locked up.
CHICAGO (STMW) — Police followed two would-be tree grate thieves to a recycling center on the West Side, where they found hundreds of city-owned tree and sewer grates, worth thousands of dollars.
CHICAGO (STMW) — Police followed two would-be tree grate thieves to a recycling center on the West Side, where they found hundreds of city-owned tree and sewer grates, worth thousands of dollars.
Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd), who went to the center with police, said the men were loitering near a tree in the 5000 block of West Pensacola Avenue on Thursday afternoon, which aroused police suspicion.
According to a complaint filed by the city’s Legal Department on Friday, police followed the men with the grate to Industrial Metal Enterprise at 901 N. Kilpatrick Ave. and watched them unload it.
Industrial Metal Enterprise buys, processes and sells industrial scrap metal nationwide, according to its website.
The complaint lists Ireneuez Kowalczyk and Janine Pawlus as the owners of Industrial Metal Eand Michelle Pawlus as manager. The complaint says the plant sells all metal received within 60 days.
But police found hundreds of pieces of metal city property at the facility, from rings that go inside sewers before they are built out to entire sets of tree grates, according to the complaint.
These scrapers are doing allot of damage to the city every day. They need some long term jail.
ReplyDeleteThese are small fish,the Daley clan and his friends need to spend some time in jail!
Deletesay it aint so. oh no
ReplyDeleteWhat about guys who take scrap from job sites, are they criminals too, or is that accepted practice for electricians, etc?
ReplyDeleteMost contractors count on scrap, like copper wire, to help cover costs, yet somehow the stuff walks off the work site. Some guys are even bold enough to brag about it. Maybe Obama's right, you didn't build it, its mine!