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Nuke plant riddle: Whose $504,000?
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 28, 2006 06:40pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Beaver County Times |
| News Date | Friday, April 21, 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two men from Houston, Texas, transporting more than $504,000 in cash were stopped at a security entrance to the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport Tuesday evening and briefly held but were not charged with any crime, state police said.
According to a state police search warrant, the men, with Kingsby driving, went to the security gate at the Shippingport plant around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in a semi rig hauling an empty flatbed trailer.
Todd Schneider, a spokesman for FirstEnergy Corp., which owns the nuclear plant, said the men were expected at the facility. With construction work on a $300 million upgrade to the plant wrapping up, Schneider said, contractors are beginning to remove equipment.
Kingsby and Lewis, Schneider said, were to pick up containers loaded with tools belonging to a contractor at the plant and take them to another work site.
The bag had a lock on it, Bayer said, but when security guards asked Kingsby to unlock the bag, he said he didn't have a key. A guard then cut the lock off the bag and saw a large amount of cash inside. Kingsby said the money belonged to his boss, who had planned to buy a truck, according to the warrant.
When security guards called Kingsby's boss, whom state police did not name, he denied any knowledge of the money, according to the warrant. |
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