Officials: 15 LIRR Workers Face Charges for Copper Theft

Workers Surrender to Authorities in Mineola

Reported by Carolyn Fortino. Posted on: Jan 25, 2013, 1:09 pm. Last update: Jan. 25, 2013, 9:19 pm.
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MINEOLA — Fifteen Long Island Railroad workers turned themselves to authorities Friday after prosecutors said they conspired to steal more than $250,000 worth of copper wiring to resell at a scrap metal yard in Farmingdale. A two-year investigation by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority inspector general, the district attorney’s office, Nassau County police and MTA police revealed that the suspects who installed communication lines along the railroad tracks stole from railroad yards in Garden City, Brooklyn, Babylon and Queens. FiOS1 News' Carolyn Fortino has the story.