One man was found unconscious in a van while police suspect he and two other men were siphoning large amounts of gasoline from a Circle K’s underground tank in Phoenix early Monday morning.
Phoenix police believe Robert Jeter, Jarad Desanti and George Brabakos, all in their mid-30s, had siphoned approximately 200 gallons from the gas station on the 1800 block of West Union Hills Drive when the clerk received an alarm that the tank was losing a large amount of fuel at about 12:30 a.m., said Detective James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Department.
The clerk, having read a security flyer that indicated a white van may have been involved in fuel theft, immediately called the police.
Police arrived several minutes later. Officers opened the back doors of the van to find Jeter passed out from fumes, Holmes said, and he was taken to a hospital where he regained consciousness. Jeter was later booked into jail along with the other two men found outside the van on suspicion of armed burglary.
The van contained a false floor, equipment apparently used to siphon gasoline and breech the underground fuel pod. The van also had a tank capable of holding 450 gallons of fuel, Holmes said.
The siphoning equipment was still underground.
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Article courtesy azcentral.com
