$100K Possible Damage Reported in Gas Station Burglary
A Sussex man and a Colgate man are charged with breaking into a Waukesha gas station.
The two men accused of burglarizing Hop It Market, 1610 Lincoln Ave., possibly caused $100,000 in damage when they pulled the fire alarm, according to a criminal complaint.
Marcel A. Bois, 29, of Sussex, and Michael J. Demont, 25, of Colgate, were each charged with burglary and felony criminal damage to property. Bois also faces a misdemeanor bail jumping charge.
According to the criminal complaint:
Via remote cameras, the gas station’s owner saw two individuals with black ski masks trying to access the safe at 4:05 a.m. Wednesday. When police arrived, an officer spotted the two leaving the building and ordered them to show their hands. Instead, they ran back into the building.
During the incident, the two people activated the fire alarm, activating the sprinkler system in the business. After officers surrounded the gas station, Bois and Demont exited the building and were arrested.
When officers entered the building, they found 1 to 2 inches of standing water from the sprinkler system. The gas station owner told police he had ordered several computers worth $100,000 for a car wash remodeling project. The owner said he believed the computers were damaged from the water. Other items in the store were also damaged from the water.
Police believe Bois had about $4,000 on him and Demont had an unspecified large amount of cash.
Bois told police he did not need the money for any opiates but just needed it to live.
Mr Lundt
5:12 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
"The gas station owner told police he had ordered several computers worth $100,000 for a car wash remodeling project-------
Uh huh.... Because no one else has ever bought a computer this sounds reasonable.
Not even NASA would claim this.
Jesse
10:33 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Mr Lundt,
Just because your acer isn't in a comparable price range doesn't mean several computers can't be worth what they're claiming. As I'm sure you're an employee for NASA that's why you know they wouldn't claim something like this if it got damaged by water. Seriously.
Mr Lundt
12:35 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Right Jesse
It takes a 100K computer to run a car wash.
Move along with your etch a sketch.
Jesse
12:40 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Oh, your opinion is totally relevant because you, yourself, own a car wash. Your comments are futile and almost sound as ignorant and baseless as the idiots that robbed that gas station.
Mr Lundt
1:04 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
You're Right Jesse. You know so much about my background that we should all suspend common sense and knowledge and admit that a computer for a car wash easily could cost $100,000.
Careful crossing the street ---you may get hit by a unicorn.
Mr. Pausch
1:21 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
I think the article says "..several computers..". I do not think it was a single computer I could be mistaken though.
Mr. Pausch
1:19 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
That must of been a lot of water to cover the floor of that entire building, that is not a small convenience store...the car wash they have been building in the back is bigger than most gas stations in Waukesha, I wouldn't doubt it requires special equipment to run vehicles through it.
I am glad they caught them and good work to Waukesha PD, it seems these guys are career criminals.
Jesse
1:37 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Pausch. According to Mr. Lundt, a self-proclaimed employee of NASA and a "car wash owner", he is aware of how much industrial/commercial computers cost for businesses - As he wrote his last comment from the Waukesha Public Library computer.
Chaos78
12:57 am on Monday, March 4, 2013
100,000 dollars in damage to a computer system when a fire alarm is pulled is completely reasonable. When a sprinkler system goes off it is meant to put out GALLONS of water in a very short time, and that is not the clean drinking water that you get out of your tap.