Three Charged for Using Credit Cards to Steal Gas

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- Three people -- including two state workers -- are being charged with using a state credit card to steal as much as $20,000 of gasoline.

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota says the two worked as aides for the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities in Dix Hills.

They're identified as Sean Marshall, 23, and Omar Hanley, 22. Also arrested was Taiwana Knight, 31, who detectives identified as Marshall's girlfriend. They're all from Wyandanch and they're charged with grand larceny.

The DA says the arrests end a nine-month investigation that began when an audit last July found the state credit cards being charged during off-hours when the vehicles were not used. And the PIN numbers on the cards belonged to former employees.

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