Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Gutter Thieves Get Jail Time

  • {Charleston, West Virginia}...Forty-one year old Robert S. Foster and 44 year old Ronald Taylor have each been sentenced to spend one year at the South Central Regional Jail after pleading guilty to stealing copper gutters from homes in Kanawha City and Edgewood last summer. Kanawha Circuit Judge Carrie Webster ordered Foster and Taylor to report to the jail on March 30th. Police say the men removed copper rain gutters from homes in at least two neighborhoods and one church and took the material to local recycling centers. Webster ordered them to pay restitution and said the men would be released from jail sooner if they could provide verification of employment and begin making those payments.