Thursday, April 01, 1999
Recycler team charged in thefts
Metal seats were ripped from park
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
INDEPENDENCE — Apparently, nobody ever told them the recycling creed is “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” not “Unbolt, steal, sell.”
In two instances, thieves took aluminum bleacher seats from Richardson Road Park in Kenton County, planning to sell them to a recycler, police said.
But investigators had area recycling centers on the lookout for long pieces of metal that looked as if they might belong at a softball field.
So when two men showed up Tuesday at Bruck Scrap Metal in Covington with 14 bleacher seats in the back of their pickup, recyclers called Kenton County police. The men were gone by the time police arrived, but the recyclers had names and addresses.
On Tuesday, police arrested Joseph Schnabl, 20, of Independence and Nathan Jackson, 22, of Elsmere. Both face felony theft charges.
The men had gotten about $300 when they cashed in some of the park seats at another Covington recycling center Sunday, police said. Police estimated the value of all 20 seats, stolen in two batches, at about $1,300.
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