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Date: 04-02-2014

Case Style: United States of America v. Michael J. Westo

Case Number: 1:13-cr-00173-JAW

Judge: JAW

Court: United States District Court for the District of Maine (Penobscott County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: James L. McCarthy and James M. Moore

Defendant's Attorney: Chuck Budd

Description: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Michael J. Weston of Milo, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to 1½ years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for damaging property of an energy facility. He was also ordered to pay $43,236 in restitution. The charges arose out of Weston’s theft of copper wire from substations owned by Emera Maine, formerly known as Bangor Hydro Electric Company.

According to court records, in 2010 and 2011, Weston cut holes in fencing or cut locks to break into substations at Brooksville, Derby, Enfield, Milo and Orrington and stole hundreds of pounds of copper ground wire from the facilities. Over that period, Bangor Hydro was the victim of theft at about 19 of its substations. According to Bangor Hydro officials, it is extremely dangerous for anyone without experience with electricity to enter the fenced areas of its transmitting substations and remove wire. Weston sold the stolen copper wire to Chester Gray’s Salvage Yard in Corinth, Maine.

The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Maine State Police and the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office.

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