Cobb Police Dealing With Line-Cutters, Fights Over Gas
Monday, September 29, 2008 – updated: 6:33 pm EDT September 29, 2008
COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- The gas crunch is keeping police officers busy -- from complaints about fights at the pumps and line-cutters, to traffic control duties outside of gas stations. Police in Kennesaw charged two people with trying to get gas by sucking it out of vans owned by a daycare center.When Karen Hill heard someone had tried to siphon gas out of her daycare vans, she was more worried than angry."I spent most of Saturday looking for fuel for my personal car and for my daughter when they called. My first thought was, 'How am I going to operate on Monday,'" said Hill.But fortunately her vans were still half-full because a Kennesaw police officer said he rolled up on the siphoning-in-progress to find two suspects crouched by the vans."When they noticed him it appeared they began pulling something, a hose of some kind, out of the gas tank," said Officer Scott Luther with the Kennesaw Police Department.The officer arrested 35-year-old Joshua Anderson of Acworth and 31-year-old Florencio Elacio of Douglasville.The gas crunch has kept officers busy -- from complaints about gas lines disrupting traffic to calls about line-cutters. Two Cobb County officers went to a BP gas station on Barrett Parkway to deal with a line-cutter.The manager said the driver of a mini-van cut an hour-long line, then refused to leave when told he wouldn't get gas.Police have also received reports about siphoning, but the daycare suspect are among the first arrests."When everyone else has to stand in or wait in long lines, everybody's tempers are getting a little short and these guys are taking the easy way out, trying to steal it from a childcare facility. That's pretty low," said Luther."I just think its a sign of the times. Desperate people do desperate things and I just hope this doesn't happen to someone else," said Hill.
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