Man Charged With Buying Stolen Chevron Parts With Drugs

May 4, 2010

riddlememphis.jpgA Brewton man has been arrested in Mississippi, charged with using the painkiller Oxycontin to pay for parts stolen from the Chevron Refinery in Pascagoula. Some of the items were then reportedly sold to businesses in Escambia County, Florida.

Memphis Shane Riddle, 39, was charged with embezzlement after turning himself in. He was released from the Jackson County (Miss.) Jail on $5,000 bond.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department said as much as half million dollars worth of stainless steel fittings may have been stolen over a five year period. When several other subcontractor employees were arrested in connection with the actual thefts, they named Riddle as the man that gave them Oxycontin, a powerful painkiller, in exchange for the parts, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

Riddle was an employee of a Louisiana-based subcontractor working at the refinery.

Comments

4 Responses to “Man Charged With Buying Stolen Chevron Parts With Drugs”

  1. David Huie Green on May 5th, 2010 1:19 pm

    REGARDING:
    “Need better control of prescriptions and what it is written for !”

    or less control, after all if they could have bought them without having to steal, they would be no worse off and would not have had to steal as much to afford their fixes.

    David for retreating when beaten in war on drugs

  2. just peachy on May 5th, 2010 1:14 pm

    Wow! Where did he get So Much Oxycontin?

  3. Terri Sanders on May 4th, 2010 9:40 am

    I just wish people would get a real job and live within their means.Stuff like this costs all of us taxpayers and we keep working to take care of low lifes like this.

  4. Sad on May 4th, 2010 9:08 am

    RX drugs are too easy to come by, it seems to me!

    Need better control of prescriptions and what it is written for !

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