Man Charged with Theft

3:49 p.m. EST, January 31, 2012

A man who worked a gas pipeline project is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of steel.

Police in Wayne County said George Doll of Oklahoma was a superintendent for Henkles and McCoy, Inc working on a pipeline project that stretches from Uniondale in Susquehanna County through Wayne and Pike counties.

Investigators said he stole more than 60 large steel road plates from a construction site in Wayne County and sold them for scrap.

The plates are valued at nearly $300,000.

Doll is locked up in Wayne County on $50,000.