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Two men have been arrested for burglary in a months-long theft of pesticides from Terminix in Pleasanton.
A former employee, Anthony Torres, 25, and current employee, Nicholas Gil, 27, both of San Jose, were arrested Feb. 12.
“Detectives executed a search and arrest warrant at Torres’ home in San Jose,” Pleasanton police Sgt. Maria Munayer said. “Gil was arrested the same day after detectives located him arriving at a service appointment.”
A commercial burglary report was filed on Jan. 13, in which Terminix in the 5800 block of W. Las Positas Boulevard noted an unknown number of cases of a chemical had been stolen. Initial estimates put the theft at as much as $180,000, but Munayer said the actual amount stolen was about $20,000.
“The investigation led detectives to a storage unit in San Jose where over $15,000 of stolen commercial grade pesticides were recovered,” she said. “Approximately $5,000 worth of pesticides had already been sold on eBay.”
The company uses about $600,000 in chemicals per year, so the loss wasn’t noted until recently. The burglaries spanned a period of nearly a year, from last March to January.
Torres and Gil were booked at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin for burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary.
Sgt. Friday: Funny thing about you stealing bug killer.
Torres: Yeah, what’s that?
Sgt. Friday: You’re the one getting squashed.
Place must have been bugged, nice job you dopes.
Funny thing is that PW first said is 120,000.00 dollars worth of pesticides that had been stolen. this is petty theft.