Two men have been indicted in connection with the theft of more than $300,000 from Syracuse parking meters from 2000 to 2005. Ronald Mancuso, of Utica, was indicted by an Oneida County grand jury on charges of second-degree criminal possession of stolen property, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Sean McGuigan, a former employee of Loomis,...
Two men have been indicted in connection with the theft of more than $300,000 from Syracuse parking meters from 2000 to 2005.
Ronald Mancuso, of Utica, was indicted by an Oneida County grand jury on charges of second-degree criminal possession of stolen property, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Sean McGuigan, a former employee of Loomis, Fargo & Co., was indicted on charges of third-degree possession of stolen property. McGuigan, of Rome, faces more than two years in prison.
FBI agents seized $322,000 from the homes of Mancuso and McGuigan, said Bernard Hyman, a deputy district attorney in Oneida County. About $12,000 of that was in quarters, Hyman said.
The money is still in FBI custody, he said.
According to documents filed in a federal court case involving the Mancuso family's illegal asbestos disposal, more than $700,000 in coins were stolen from Syracuse parking meters for six years. Mancuso and McGuigan were not identified by name in that document, which said a Loomis employee and a partner copied a key to the parking meters, emptied the meters and deposited the money in their personal bank accounts.
Ronald Mancuso was just sentenced to three years probation in the asbestos case, which charged the Mancuso family will illegally removing and dumping asbestos.
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