OCEAN CITY — A local man was arrested on theft charges last week after allegedly pinching money from a business’s safe where he worked.
Around 6:30 p.m. last Friday, an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer responded to a nightclub on 17th Street to investigate an alleged theft. The officer met with the club owner, who advised he suspected a member of his security staff of stealing money from a safe in the office on the first floor.
The business owner told police he noticed roughly $3,000 missing from the safe on Sunday, July 21. The owner told the investigating officer he suspected the money had been taken Saturday, July 20 or early Sunday, July 21. The owner told police after he discovered the theft, he bought a security camera and installed it in the ceiling of the office where the safe is located.
The business owner told police he suspected the culprit would strike again and hoped to catch the suspect with the surveillance camera. Last Friday, the business owner made copies of $900 he put in the safe and waited for the suspect to strike again. Sure enough, the suspect, Chad Cirigliano, 40, of Berlin, was captured on surveillance video entering the office and manipulating the safe around 6:55 p.m. on Friday, July 26.
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11 comments:
Don't people do background checks anymore before they hire someone. This guy has 2 pages on casesearch including burglary.
Good catch smart business owner, have seen theft in stores over the years and gone and reported it to the managers, most often they act like they don't care like write it off end of the year or something. Caught my share when I worked they are easy to spot, even seen them take expensive items and put cheaper ones in the boxes, they don't even care if you see them.
Somebody's got a drug problem?
That establishment should have done a background check on their employees. It would have discovered his security had numerous priors for theft!
Which OC lawyer is going to take this one on?
Years ago in OC there was a safe broken into at a restaurant and 3 business owners ended up committing suicide because of the contents.
What was in it ?
Hiring a guy with a neck tattoo was the first mistake.
Secondly was the teardrop tattoo (which was probably B***S***.) which means you killed someone or you've done a LOT of hard time.
This guy is just a wannabe thug and a poser.
Good hiring, 17th Street nightclub!
Title 18 section 471 of the U.S. code makes it illegal to photocopy currency to pass it off as real money. His trap was ingenious however by copying the money to pass it off as real in order to catch the thief is still illegal. This was the owners intent, to pass off the copies as real, in order to catch a thief. The owner can still be held to the law due to his "intent" to pass the copies off as real.
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He wasn't making a copy to pass it off as fake money. He made a copy to get all the serial numbers so he could prove who took it once they were caught.
Article says he made "copies of $900 he put in the safe", sounds to me the copies were placed in the safe. It does not say he made copies for serial number match, those numbers could have been written down just as easily.
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