Talk about a drinking bout gone bad. An employee at the salt mine in Amboy was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to steal diesel gas from his employer. The problem was that, in the process, he also stole a truck and front-end loader which he drove through plant’s locked gate. According to a Sheriff’s report, Frank Segler-Monroe, 26, of Prescott, Arizona, was intoxicated when he went to the Amboy Calcium Carbonate plant in the 18200 block of Kelbaker Road sometime after midnight Thursday. Segler-Monroe allegedly drove his truck around the gate into the plant where he stole 15 gallons of diesel from the mine’s tank. Unfortunately for Segler-Monroe, however, on the way out his truck got stuck in the desert. According to the report, he then took the mine’s Chevy 4500 lubrication truck to pull his truck out of the sand, but that too got stuck. Segler-Monroe then allegedly took the mine’s front-end loader and crashed through the locked gate to pull out his truck and the mine’s borrowed stuck-lubrication truck. While doing this, he damaged the highway. At 2 a.m. the mine’s supervisor and called deputies. When the deputy arrived, he searched Segler-Monroe’s vehicle and found two loaded handguns, one of which had been reported stolen out of Prescott Valley two years ago. The damage to the road was estimated at about $7,000. The unfortunate would-be robber was arrested for investigation of felony vandalism and possession of a stolen handgun. He was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with bail set at $25,000.
AMBOY SALT MINE EMPLOYEE ARRESTED FOR VANDALISM, POSSESSION OF STOLEN GUN
