YORK Three York residents were arrested early Friday morning for stealing railroad crossing signs and 55 railroad spikes, according to a York County Sheriff’s Office report.
Police say Jonathan Ross Ashley, 29, Benjamin Scott Bolin, 19, and Kelin Michael Garrett, 20, were found near Old York Road and Maplewood Drive with the signs and spikes in the trunk of a car.
An officer spotted Garrett standing beside the car on the side of the road, the report states.
Garrett told police he pulled over because his friend was sick and was in the woods, according to the report.
The other two were questioned after coming out of the woods, and gave police conflicting stories, the report states.
Police say they found a pair of channel locks in the woods and could see two hammers in the back floor board of the car. Officers searched the car “based on reasonable suspicion.”
They found four sets of Norfolk Southern railroad crossing signs, one state sign, one private railroad crossing sign and 55 railroad spikes inside the car, the report states.
Ashley and Bolin are being held at the Moss Justice Detention Center awaiting bond with charges of trespassing on railroad tracks, interference with traffic controls and petty larceny. Garrett is also awaiting bond at the detention center facing charges of interference with traffic controls.
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