CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A construction company owner was the spark that led Chicago police to a warehouse where apparently stolen construction equipment was being kept.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of construction equipment was discovered Tuesday in a warehouse on 58th and Lafayette in the Englewood neighborhood. Ben Kasper of the Winfield Group told CBS-2 he’s the one who led police to the warehouse.
Construction equipment of his was stolen from a site in south suburban Harvey last week, but Kasper had a GPS device on it.
“They ripped out the phony GPS tracker I put in it but the real GPS tracker was in it and that got me notified of this location,” Kasper said. “I walked up in there and took the equipment back and then looked around and said this other stuff’s probably stolen, too."
Some of the equipment found in the warehouse had been stolen as long ago as 2020.
Kasper said the stunned man in the warehouse was the one who actually called police, apparently afraid Kasper would do something to him.
Police arrested the man and Kasper and other people who’d had equipment stolen were able to claim it.
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