From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
Harford County Sheriff’s detectives have arrested two Harford County employees and have charged them each with ongoing thefts of gasoline from Harford County government’s Scarboro Landfill operation. On May 15, 2013, Tracy L. Sexton, 43, and James E. Doran, 46, both of 607 Doctor Jack Road, Port Deposit, Maryland have been charged with theft and continuing course (scheme) of conduct (theft) for stealing gas from the fuel depot at Scarboro Landfill on Scarboro Road in Dublin.
Detectives were alerted to the thefts by Harford County government officials who discovered both employees were fueling their personal vehicles at the County fuel pumps. It is suspected the employees entered the site after hours and used their employee pin numbers to access the pumps. It is further believed they had fueled their personally owned cars over 40 times since 2011 resulting in an estimated loss to the county of approximately $2,282.00.
Both Doran and Sexton were taken in to custody at the Sheriff’s Office without incident. After being charged both were taken before a Harford County District Court Commissioner who released them on their own recognizance.
Dummies!
OMG county workers stealing from the taxpayers.
Say it isn’t so.
It’s probably just some misunderstanding about what they are entitled too while suffering long work hours under terrible conditions…..
Jim, you spent too much time at Wawa instead of following real criminals committing acts of theft. I bet you are as happy as a pig in mud with all your suspicions becoming true in the name of these 2 idiots. It certainly doesn’t reflect well on any county employee and I hope that if guilty that the county will tighten up who has access to get gas unsupervised.
Actually I have no idea how happy a pig in mud is so I will defer to you and your family members on such matters.
sir you are a dick!
Of course I am…. and people who steal from the taxpayers are model citizens…..
Undertaker your moral compass is so broke you couldn’t afford to fix it if you had a government job…..
Jim, you are a DICK.
I hope they fire and throw the book at their sorry butts. There are to many honest hard working out of work people who would love to have a county job.
Stealing is not worth your job, character or reputation. They certainly don’t have my sympathy or care. if they are guilty they will lose the county pensions for sure, job and hopefully they will get jail time. Anyone that steals from their employer should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Stealing from tax payers is the government workers mantra…..
It’s what they do…. It’s all they do….
I’m new here, so I may have missed something. Also, I do understand that this is called “Dagger Press,” not “Snuggle Pillows of Comfort,” so the commentary should be expected to be somewhat sharp.
However, Jim, your venom towards the Harford County Government and its employees seems to go above and beyond the average American malaise. I certainly carry my share (and then some) of discontent, although, honestly, my beef right now is more with the state. I’m not aiming to start a fight with you. I’m just trying to get a handle on where you are coming from. Have you been acutely wronged by an individual employee or has the system as a whole slighted you somehow? Are you mad at all government in general, and I’m just seeing the Harford County wrath here because it’s a Harford centered site? I read your posts on the school 4 day work week story, too. Again, I’m not trying to be antagonistic toward you at all, please don’t take it that way. I’m just trying to understand what is causing all this passion.
Thanks.
lock em up
Your Honor..It was only 40 times though~Not like we did it everyday!
Careful…. Undertaker will be along shortly to explain just how easy it is to pump the gas of people you do not know into a vehicle of unknown ownership…
Dude is awesome…..
You going to make me guilty because I work for the county as well? Have at it Jim, I would not expect anything less for you. FYI…stealing from the government or private sector is still the same crime under the law. I won’t defend these two if found guilty and as I said previously, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The county should let them resign,
keep their pension and get a
job with the State of Maryland.
It’s only fair after the humiliation
that they get a county and a state
pension.
If they are young enough maybe
the can steal from the State and
then get a federal job,
Now that would be a trifecta
pension.
I wonder how many other “dedicated and hard working” oh, and underpaid county employees fill up their gas tank to make ends meet on their meager salary?
Idiots…there’s a reason why each individual county vehicle has its own unique fuel key, each employee with access to the pumps has their own PIN, and you have to punch in the vehicle mileage before the pump turns on. Plus I think most of the county pumps have cameras on them to catch people doing things like this.
It’s a shame Jim in Hickory was too busy staking out the Wawa instead of the landfill. He could’ve caught these guys years ago and been a big hero in his own mind.
Only took 3 years to catch them with that awesome system of checks. The reason the government fails at stopping waste is everyone that is employed by the government is a waste, it’s how the system is designed.
The county should offer them a plea bargain to rat out their fellow criminals…. I mean workers….
It’s not like it’ll show up right away as suspicious and get flagged, but over time when the mileage numbers don’t match up (especially when compared to the mileage on the vehicles when they go in for service) it will get flagged. If you’re smart about it and keep track of what numbers you’re entering you probably can get away with it for awhile, but at some point they just won’t add up and fleet services will start looking into it.
In any case, if you’d been staking out the pumps instead of staking out the Wawa they would’ve been court significantly sooner. Do you need a list of pump locations so you can start your next quest?
They were at the dump after hours in vehicles they should not have been operating when they were not working certainly would have taken years to figure out…..
They could probably turn this into a CSI episode it’s so convoluted….
Sadly, NOTHING will happen to them. They probably won’t even lose their jobs, unlike in the private sector.
Whaa whaa whaa whaa whaaa. Everyone gets a break but you. Public Sector jobs are clearly unavailable to you despite your sense of entitlement and self importance. Congratulations are in order though! You now have a fulltime job complaining in the Dagger Forum anytime someone else gets a break that you do not.
I can’t tell the two apart. They are wearing Harford County Shirts and that is so cute. The morons thought they could get away with it.
Dumb and Dumber !
Clearly there’s a profound lack of oversight with management and the public sector. Stealing gas, running up credit cards for personal use, taking copper wire and other scrap metal and over long, long periods of time and brazenly. Given how easy it appears to be to steal from the taxpayer I’m bettin’ this is the tip of the iceberg.
What did you eat for breakfast?
They should be charged with theft, a “gas tax” and a “rain tax” being the incident occurred at the county dump!~
Maybe they’ll get Sheila Dixon’s judge. That way they can keep their pensions, do no jail time, piss and moan for years about having to pay back the money they stole and then reapply for their jobs.
What they did was wrong and there needs to be consequences. It shouldn’t have taken so long to catch up with what they were doing. These people aren’t criminal masterminds, out to cheat the american public. They did something very wrong and got greedy. Now their friends, family, neighbors, and future employers all know what they did.
Thanks a lot you two, know my wife who proudly wears her Harford county t-shirts, has to go incognito to work and then change.
On a bright note for these to criminals is, a quick Maryland Judiciary Case Search shows they might just know the police officers and judges as this isn’t their first time in the harford county court system.
What a shocker….
Are you serious? Jeez you never know the skum you work with. Some people reform, some don’t.
It is interesting the number of down votes Jim has gotten.
How is it anyone can be against stopping government waste and theft?
My first response is this must be other government employees that are one step away from those who have been exposed.
What other reason could one have for supporting the theft of tax payer funds?
I don’t see anyone supporting these two clowns. What I do see are people annoyed with Jim having a hard on for county employees, believing that anyone who works for the government is a leech on society and stealing from taxpayers, and assuming that anytime he sees any county employee at his favorite Wawa hang out that they’re deliberately wasting taxpayer dollars and doing whatever they can to avoid work.
I think it’s pretty obvious that there is a lot of waste in government at every level, but I don’t think incidents like this are at all common. If they were, then this wouldn’t be news.
People seem to dislike Jim?
Of course we should consider
he could be right.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant…when people do wrong it should be pointed out and they should be charged at the full extent of the law. As far as this sort of thing not happening in the private sector? how many bankers and lenders have been charged and convicted for the fraud and expense to the taxpayer? Clearly, people that want to steal for whatever reason are not just common in govt but private sector as well. I know my daughter’s employer just fired an employee suspected of stealing over $8k over 3 years and couldn’t really prove he/she did it, although all indications pointed that way. Yes, even in the private sector, ingenious people will find a way to steal money, inventory or time away from their employer. These two county employees have done a lot of damage to the morale of county employees whom would not risk losing their jobs, pension or incur jail time over a few k’s over a number of years. As far as JIm from Hickory…this guy was a complete tool before any news of these two numbskulls and more so now that he has “proof” that al county employees steal as if the whole county workforce is now guilty by association.
I am sorry to all I disappointed! I was just making up for no raises and all those furlowed days over the last few years. I have been fired, I was really hoping to keep my job after all they let drunks an addicts keep there jobs after attending help classes, I am willing to attend some help classes and who knows some day I might be able to work in the county treasurer’s office. I would be a good asset for I am very frugal and know how to keep commuting to work expenses down!
A simple solution would be to make them pay restitution equal the highest consumer price per gallon in the last two years for the entire volume of gasoline dispensed on the involved codes as punitive damages.
You can’t get blood out of a turnip as the saying goes! These two are always broke, so let the court take over, and hope the court makes the right decision.
Response to JD Doran’s comment: I can’t believe you actually posted that comment or any comment at all on this subject. Oh, wait. Yes, I can. After all, you admittedly used your personal county PIN number to steal county property, 40+ times, no less. Idiots is only one adjective I can think of to describe you two. It may have taken longer than it should have to catch you in the act, but did you think you would never get caught? How could you not? You’re sorry to all you disappointed? How about those you’ve outraged and disgusted?! All county employees, with the exception of a very select and chosen few, have suffered through no raises for four years, furlough days with no pay, doing more work (contrary to the opinion of some of the posters here) with less resources and staff, increased out-of-pocket healthcare costs every year, then a raise last year that was, basically, immediately negated by increased federal taxes and increased healthcare costs, and the list goes on and on. What makes you think you’ve suffered so much more than the rest of us that you deserve to fill up your personal gas tank at the taxpayer’s expense? The rest of us paid at the pump even though we’ve suffered through the same economic hardships as two you have. You’re frugal? That’s not even remotely humorous. That you would even joke about what you’ve done and suggest that you could ever be rehired as a county employee, in the Treasuer’s office no less, jokingly or not, makes me nauseous. You should be so humiliated and remorseful by what you’ve done that you’d never want to show your face in public again, much less post a comment and joke about what you’ve done and actually admit in a public forum that you did it! Did it occur to you that you just made a public confession of your guilt to the charges against you? Any illusions that you may have had about pleading “not guilty” when your case goes to court, just flew out the window. Referencing “Oh, the humiliation’s” comment: Unfortunately, I almost feel the same way as your wife. After reading the negative comments here about county employees, in general, I am almost ashamed to let anyone know that I work for the county. I realize I am not responsible for the actions of others, but neither should I have to suffer the consequences of those actions and tarnished reputations of two fellow employees who made very poor decisions to commit the crime of stealing from their employer and county taxpayers. But unfortunately, the public opinion of government employees, at all levels, seems to be at an all time low as it is. And when government employees do things like you’ve admittedly done, it only takes the public’s opinion of the collective government employees to a new low. Thanks, JD Doran. You have no one’s sympathy, least of all mine, that you’ve lost your job of 17 years. You traded your job, your pension and your healthcare insurance for a few tanks of gas. Now where are you going to get your gas, and how are you going to pay for it? Wait, don’t answer that. I really don’t care, as long as the taxpayers aren’t buying it for you. Oh, and I’m not only a county employee, I’m also a Harford County taxpayer. You owe me some gas money. Pay up.
@disgusted…JD Doran (threat handle name) is not JE Doran (charged employee). The first one was being sarcastic regarding the whole thing. I know sometimes the written word doesn’t translate the true intentions.
You county workers are a hoot. Dumb and dumber steal gas and then the real county dummies come here and make sure the rest of us know just how dumb everyone of you idiots are.
Newsflash for disgusted…. that wasn’t the Doran in the article, just cause you read it on the internet doesn’t make it true. You brain dead morons are lucky the county doesn’t make you pass an IQ test or you’d all be on welfare.
Everyone calls him JD, but you are correct someone else could have signed in easily.
LOL Disgusted thinks they are really talking to the guy mentioned in the article. HERP DERPPP A HUR HUR HUR HUR
only one QUESTION…..WILL THEY GET FIRED…my company….you steal .50cents…you get fired!!!
no questions…you get FIRED…..im wondering and watching!!!…if they stole the gas and got caught…what else did the STEAL and no one knows about…just a ?
That was two questions 🙂
1. Yes
2. Who knows for sure, other than them?
Assuming that these two will be found guilty, I am pretty sure that their days with county employment are over and they may lose their pension if convicted of a felony. You would think that if they are filling up their personal vehicles by using their pin number to get access to a county account that the case should be pretty much a done deal.
With all the money Doran saved from buying his own gas, you would think he’d be able to afford a decent haircut.
Maybe you should have your IQ tested as well before you’re permitted to post your insults here. Your comment speaks volumes to your character. And unless you posted the comment by “JD Doran”, neither you nor I know the true identity of that person. Glass houses.
YOU CAN’T PUT ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET THAT ISN’T TRUE BILL H YOU AHOLE.
bonjour
Why would you risk a great county job over a few thousand dollars worth of gas? Truth really is stranger than fiction. I was discussing this with a few guys I work with, who grew up in Cecil, and they said, “There’s a reason they call it Ceciltucky!”
I’m interested to know the official rules behind making broad generalizations about people based on their employment. I’ve seen all walks of life locked up for the full range of crimes from teachers, doctors, lawyers, clergy, business owners, the wealthy unemployed born with a silver spoon, down to your common career criminal. Am I allowed to say that all of the people in all of those professions are crooks or do the rules state that only the public sector can be generalized for the actions of their coworkers. People do bad things, thats why my job exists, and when I stand in front of any man/woman/child or god himself I expect to be judged based on my character and my actions alone not because I work in the same field, sector, or for the same employer as one or more assholes. The people putting on here that all county employees are unintelligent and looking for ways to steal only make themselves look foolish and it’s only a matter of time before they will be upset about someone making generalizations that apply to them.
And I really like me some fresh doughnuts.
I’ll get the coffee n meet you at the parking lot, looking out for Jim in Hickory scouting out the employees stealing time from the county, ie, the taxpayer.
You wanna meet me in a parking lot? Sorry pal I’m not into that sort of thing, Like I said I’m not judging anyone but come on to me again and I’ll put your lights out permanently.
@county employee.. you are just full of yourself aren’t you? whatever makes you think I would be coming on to you? Didn’t think meeting anything at freaking Wawa was a proposition of anything! what a freaking moron.
Loser…..
IF all of us registered voters comment on this post..If they ask for a jury trial, we will be excused, (LOL) correct? Or if we go to to WaWa..and say, HI Jim! We will be excused? (LOL)
Play nice , and be nice on this blog please! It is not about people making comments. It is about the stupid people that stole from the county!? Right?
Hey, you talking to me? (In Sylvester Stallone Low IQ voice)
Some idiot is wasting precious job search time posting under my screen name. I suspect when his public assistance runs out he will stop pretending to be me.
Are you Jim in Hickory or just full of sugar from your doughnuts? Talk about being loser? when was the last time someone asked you out on a date?
Maybe it says something about how underpaid us county employees are. I true honest working person would never do such a thing. A underpaid uneducated trash servant at the landfill would. I think the county needs to take a look at some of the people they hire and why they stay employed over the years! They also need to look farther in to the pay. Higher pay attracts more smater qualified individuals. Bottom line!
I think the trash people get paid probably over and above the market rate. They certainly get a pension and great health insurance as well and it turns out they get to gas up every now and then. These two just got greedy, but I would venture to say that govt employees get away with what they can.
A) The CEO’s of ENRON, Bernie Madoff, and others all had plenty of money yet they continued to steal. Dishonesty and greed are common traits of mankind, the only thing you can do is keep looking for it and trying to prevent it
B) Within the last few years the salary of the president was increased to 400k and it hasn’t attracted any smarter more qualified individuals, bazinga!
Obviously I’m not the real J. Doran, I was only attempting some humor after reading all these post (>IQ’s vs. <IQ's). Wow … I think it's time to change the filter in the IQ pool! No matter the opinions people have about me… Who cares steeling is wrong and a huge violation and disregard of the 10 condmandments…. I know now I will be challenged because I mentioned God… Check your U.S. and Biblical history before you post your opinion. America founded on the principals of freedom "OF" religion not freedom "FROM" religion… In God We Trust
Yes you will be challenged. God, the commandments, and biblical history have no place in our government or in how this country is run. Religion is the bane of mankind. You have the right to pray away, but I don’t want to hear about religion having anything to do with our governance.
I think it’s a load of crap that the low IQ fear based individuals cling to justify their existence.
It must really piss you off when Obama attends the national prayer breakfast and church. Is he one of those low IQ fear based individuals, or his he just pandering to the low IQ based people who vote for him?
Well since Obama isn’t a real Christian or American, it would be safe to assume that he is just being a good politician. I guess he is also a hunter and loves America too.
Actually, it does…..
Is he low IQ and fear based, or just pandering to the same? I don’t believe he is low IQ, but he would pander in a heart beat.
Definitely pandering…..
Just heard the live news briefing from OK Governor Mary Fallen. She said that she had received a call from President Obama who told her he was praying for OK and asking for Gods grace for the people affected by the tornado there and pledging the governments help in recovery efforts.
Another low IQ politico getting involved in government!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Read Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.
Creator, pffffffttttttt……….