NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A Nashville man has been arrested after he allegedly used a screwdriver to siphon fuel out of a small business’s work van.
According to an affidavit, Metro Nashville Police were dispatched to 455 Donelson Pike on Wednesday after a reported gasoline theft. Surveillance footage showed the suspect, John Bruce, arriving at the business in a black Ford Crown Victoria and then getting out of the car with a gas can.
Bruce was then seen approaching a work van, crawling underneath and puncturing a hole in the fuel tank to take its gasoline. The victim told police that the damage to the fuel tank would cost more than $1,000 to fix. They also said that roughly $60 worth of gasoline was stolen.
Bruce was later seen at another address working on the same Crown Victoria seen in the surveillance footage. Officers confirmed that he was the same man in the video and he was…
