Church Robbed Of Heating Oil

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Hebron, Maryland was robbed of over $600 heating oil used for Sunday Church Services. The Hebron Episcopal Church Vestry Member said, “ this past week we put oil in the tank and now we just don’t have the money in our budget to replace it ”.  Church members had placed a lock on the oil tank lid, but the crooks used an over-sized pipe wrench and removed the entire top of the pipe, lock and all. Both the vent pipe and fill pipe on the tank screw off and are really just for the honest person. St. Paul’s is one of Maryland's Historic Sites and has been open to all since the early 1700’s. With extreme cold weather and now no heating oil... all services in the church have been put on hold. Our doors have been open since before America was America and now with our struggling economy our tanks have been emptied. With church collections on the decrease and theft on the increase, we had no choice but to put service on hold in the old historic church. A police report was filed with Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.