LAKEPORT, Calif. – Two men were arrested this week after a police officer found them taking gasoline from the transportation yard at a local school district.
David Edward Elliston, 30, and Michael Anthony Gama, 30, both of Nice, were arrested early Thursday morning, according to Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.
At about 4:20 a.m. Thursday morning Officer Norm Taylor responded to the Lakeport Unified School District in response of a motion detector alarm going off in the transportation yard, Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen said Taylor saw a vehicle in the area and two subjects putting gas in the vehicle out of a gas can.
Taylor contacted Elliston and Gama and determined that they had taken the gasoline from the district and may have been out looking for additional gas to steal. Rasmussen noted there have been other gas thefts in the city recently.
Elliston and Gama both were on probation for theft-related crimes, Rasmussen said.
Both Elliston and Gama were booked for felony receiving stolen property and felony probation violations. Both remained in the Lake County Jail on no-bail holds on Saturday, according to jail records.
Their booking sheets said they are due to appear in court next Monday, Dec. 31.
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