Police are investigating a whopper of a fuel theft from a service station in Burbank.
Police on Monday said the service station’s owner reported 4,000 gallons of diesel disappeared sometime before 5 a.m. on Friday.
Burbank police Detective Sam Anderson says when the gas station opened at that time, workers found the underground diesel tanks had been drained.
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A man took petrol several times from the same Tauranga service station without paying before he was finally caught, a judge was told today.
Ford Wayne Tawhara, 24, unemployed, admitted five charges of theft when he appeared before Judge Thomas Ingram in Tauranga District Court.
He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.
Sergeant Sean Brennan said Tawhara helped himself to petrol costing various sums between $5.75 and $104.81 from a Fifteenth Avenue service station on March 23 and 26 and on April 18 and 22.
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A Houston man was charged with aggravated robbery Thursday in the brazen theft of a tractor trailer hauling more than 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
Police said Kenneth O’Brian Payne, 38, hijacked the tanker truck about 3 a.m. Monday soon after the driver finished topping off the load of fuel.
HPD investigators arrested him about 3 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 5300 block of Lelia, police said.
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