Landowners Say $40K in Timber StolenStaff Reports, 11:14PM / Tuesday, January 05, 2010 | |
STAMFORD, Vt. — A Connecticut couple are accusing a Bennington man of stealing $40,000 worth of lumber from their wooded property - four years after the alleged crime was committed.
Robert Kobelia, 57, has been cited to appear in Vermont District Court in Bennington on Jan. 26 on a charge of grand larceny.
Lynn and Walter Nightingale of Bolton, Conn., filed a complaint with state police late last year, saying they'd discovered in 2008 that the property had been logged four years before, sometime during January or February 2004, without their consent.
They had reportedly contacted the Kobelia, owner of Northeast Wood Products, who told them that he oversaw the operation, but
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