An air conditioning technician has been sentenced after using a company credit card to gas up his personal vehicle.
DeSantis Air Conditioning technician Juan Carlos Garcia, 31, of Wildwood, was arrested this past August on a charge of grand theft and two counts of fraud.
A tipster called the company to let it be known that Garcia had been spotted pumping gas into his personal vehicle at the Marathon station on Cleveland Avenue in Wildwood, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.
The company checked Garcia’s gasoline purchases and daily log and found that Garcia had used a company-issued credit card several times over the previous four months during non-working hours. The total amount of gasoline purchased was $1,376, with $122 of that being purchased without the company vehicle present.
Surveillance from the gas station showed Garcia’s work vehicle parked at a pump with a silver vehicle at the opposite pump. Garcia is shown pumping gasoline into the work vehicle and then moving the nozzle to the silver vehicle without ending the transaction.
Earlier this month in Sumter County Court, Garcia entered a plea of no contest to the grand theft charge. The fraud charges were dismissed. He has been placed on probation for 24 months.