From WPIX:Police received an anonymous complaint about 8:45 p.m. Saturday that someone in a van with New York plates was filling up five-gallon buckets with gas at the Valero station at 347 Boston Post Road, police said.
Officers arrived at the scene and found that Yunus Latif, 47, of Richmond Hill, N.Y., was filling up buckets from The Home Depot with gas. Latif told the officers he was unable to get gas in New York because it was sold out.
He said his neighbors gave him money to buy gas; he had about 30 buckets of gasoline in the van, each of which contained about four gallons of gas.
The officers saw that the buckets had lids that had not been properly fastened, and the lids were beginning to expand, police said. The gas had not been put in proper containers, they said.
Police called the local fire marshal and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Officials decided to return the gasoline to its underground tanks.
Latif was charged with violation concerning flammable or combustible liquids, police said. He was given a court date of Nov. 19, at Superior Court in Derby.
11 comments:
a friend was told that gas stations in Fairfield,Ct. had plenty of gas at $3.79/Gal. he filled up and passed up the long lines in Queens.
Why is Queens in such a gasoline mess ?
Faith and begorrah, Yunis Latif. A son of the Old Sod.
Someone will get shot over this gas problem..............
You see...
we don't need foreign terrorists to blow up a tunnel or a bridge.
We just need a home grown idiot like Latif!
I am told that there are long gas lines in NYS as far north as Pokeepsie.
Why doe the pols call Queens a multicultural paradise and everyone else a 3rd world slum?
Bigger question, why do we reelect people with such scant attention to reality?
When is our governor going to mandate the odd/even system in NY? It will cut the gas lines in half. Governor Christie did it right away. We are into the second week of the storm aftermath and people in Queens can't get gas without waiting on a line for two hours.
It was completely illegal to even sell that guy gas - those bucketss are not approved conatiners; furthermor, a special permit is needed to sell ANYONE more than 2.5 gallons in a container without a special permit. . .
big government getting involved again, telling us what is safe.
Anon No. 9: Instead of letting people find out for themselves at the wrong time? Good try at trolling.
Anon no. 10, looking for a flame war are you? If we arrested all the idiots in this city there would be very few left to pay taxes.
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