Saturday, August 04, 2012

US Sugar Employee Busted For Metal Theft

Accused Of Stealing Metal Plates From Railroad

CLEWISTON, FL. -- A former employee of U.S. Sugar has been arrested for allegedly stealing metal parts from U.S. Sugar's railroad, the South Central Florida Express, and taking them to a LaBelle scrap dealer to sell.

41-year old Robert Stacy Kellogg was arrested in Hendry County on July 28th, and then transferred to West Palm Beach after security personnel at the company concluded it's investigation of Kellogg.

Ronnie Padgett, U.S. Sugar's security officer, after a tip had a GPS tracking device placed on Kellogg's company owned truck last year, and tracked his movement from Clewiston to LaBelle.

The device reportedly showed four trips to Ashley and Sons scrap metal business on SR29 south of LaBelle. Palm Beach detectives questioned two workers at Ashley and they said Kellogg had not been there for years. When the detective said he had physical evidence, one employee reportedly apologized to the detective, admitting he lied about when he last saw Kellogg.

Records indicated Kellogg had brought in 2,730 pounds of steel railroad plates to Ashley and Sons. Kellogg's last address was a rented manufactured home at 4018 Caloosa Loop in Port LaBelle, Fl.

UPDATE: Kellogg was plead and was found guilty August 10, 2012 and sentenced to 30 days and 30 months probation and to make no contact with U.S. Sugar.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:51 PM

    Former employee. He has not worked at US Sugar for over 6 months.

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  2. Anonymous9:41 AM

    uhm read the complete article
    tracking device on his company truck last year
    it has taken this long to file charges
    he was a US Sugar employee at the time he committed the crime.
    not that it matters U S Sugar has been robbing Hendry County for years

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  3. United States sugar corporation has been stealing s*** from people for years in South Florida. Fuck us sugar and all the son of a b****** that work there the higher up same way not the employee there's a lot of good ones. And the plates that he was accused of stealing was not stolen we were cleaning up the ditches in the fields. And when Robert and another employee started pulling plates out of the ditches in canals they both asked Mike they're supervisor if they could scrap them if it was okay he said yes. And the way I know this is because I'm Robert Kellogg. F*** all the tech detectives the cops and anybody who was involved with that corrupt f****** arrest may they all died and be buried 6 ft under

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