Las Vegas Fire and Rescue shared images online of the makeshift gas station discovered by firefighters Tuesday. The photos show two yellow tanks with a gas pump nozzle on the end of a hose.
Officials say the hose from the yard was long enough to reach the street for possible curbside fill-ups.
Investigators say this was an elaborate scheme. It included trucks that may look normal but police tell us they’re disguised to hid massive fuel tanks to hold fraudulently purchased gas.
“Some of these people have, as you’ve seen before, they have like trees on top of them making it seem like a landscaping company, some have very dark tinted windows, some have tires, rugs, all sorts of things they can think of to conceal these trucks,” explained Argemis Colome with Miami-Dade Police Dept.
The way the scheme works, according to police, is that stolen credit card numbers are used to buy massive amounts of gas.
That gas is pumped into the hidden tanks, then it’s taken to a fuel yard in Hialeah where it’s sold.
“The gas is being sold to these sites for about half of what they pay for at regular pumps and the site makes about a 50 percent mark up to the other people who knowingly go to these sites to purchase fuel illegally,” Colome said.
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Busy so I haven’t wrote a lot lately because unlike this fat nigress I would pay for my gas with a job. I bet it stole the car too. I didn’t even read this article before I wrote that stolen remark. These monkeys can’t keep their paws off anything. I was too busy laughing at the look on the boons face.
