A Pennsylvania man has been jailed on charges he stole a $125,000
backhoe from a suburban construction site then drove it about 30 miles
to a scrapyard in Philadelphia where he intended to sell it.
Police
estimate it would have taken 33-year-old William Michael Pusey about 2
1/2 hours to make the trip to Philadelphia from Shainline Excavating of
Phoenixville, where the backhoe was stolen Sunday.
State police
say the backhoe's owner was able to locate it because of a
global-positioning device in it. Police say Pusey was arrested in
Philadelphia where he had heard someone wanted to buy a backhoe.
Court records don't list an attorney for Pusey, of Columbia, who has
been returned to the Lancaster County Prison because he faces an
outstanding unrelated arrest warrant for theft there.
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