Carlos Hernandez, 4/19/88 of 850 Noble Avenue Bridgeport was charged with Larceny 2nd degree and credit card fraud by Bridgeport Police. Hernandez allegedly tried to sell the six to seven thousand dollar item for forty dollars at East Coast Pond on Glenwood Avenue around 4:15pm Tuesday. The item was taken from a personal vehicle parked on Douglas Street of an employee from HAKS Material Testing Group. The chains securing the item was cut along with personal items and the employees debit card which was used at two different locations. The item called a Troxler guage and contains radioactive. It is used in gauging how tightly packed soil is. HAKS is a contractor on the Route 8 project. After Hernandez’s arrest at the pawn shop the item was not tampered with and returned to HAKS.
By Stephen Krauchick
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