BALTIMORE - A Baltimore scrap yard owner is accused of trying to sell $2.6 million in industrial metals, mostly nickel, after a Labor Day weekend heist from an importer.
Sixty-five-year-old Alan Verschleisser has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with knowingly possessing stolen goods from an international shipment.
The stolen nickel briquettes were inside shipping containers and were worth $2.5 million. Also stolen was about 110,000 pounds of ferrochrome, worth around $100,000.
According to the complaint, Verchleisser's scheme unraveled when he tried to sell the nickel briquettes to a Swiss-based supplier. Authorities searched his scrap yard and recovered most of the stolen nickel.
Verschleisser was arrested as he tried to board a flight to Israel at a New York airport.
This is a lie. He was not boarding any plane to Israel in November or December. He had canceled this ticket because he know he was not allowed to leave the country. He is innocent. I can't believe that the news paper is allowed to print lies like this. I hope he sues them.
ReplyDeleteHe is going to trial in federal court in baltimore on Jan 3rd 2012
ReplyDeleteThis is the BIGGIST lie I have ever read. It shows how u can never trust the newspaper on anything.
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