N.S. trials set for quarter-million-dollar fuel heist

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N.S. trials set for quarter-million-dollar fuel heist
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Ecology Action Centre calls for immediate implementation of Coastal Protection Act | SaltWireA Harrietsfield excavation company owner and a Spryfield man who says he was just hired to pump gas are both heading to trial next year for a quarter-million-dollar fuel heist.

According to a search warrant application in the case, Franklin told police,"he was hired to pump gas and had no idea that the credit card was stolen."He said he was paid"$20/hour to simply pump and deliver fuel," and he'd been doing it for more than two months. Police were in the process of searching Fancy’s home that night when he arrived in a burgundy Jeep Wrangler hauling a trailer containing three empty fuel tanks with steel cages around them – the same kind they’d seen Franklin filling in the flatbed trailer at the Beechville Irving earlier that day.Investigators found a 1,000-litre cube tank “on the left side of the garage, which appeared to be full,” said the search warrant application.

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