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5th April 2011, 03:40
Anger over a lack of pay raises, increasing costs of healthcare and the amount of money Mesa has spent to retain the Chicago Cubs led a city employee last Friday to attempt to sabotage public wastewater-treatment operations at a plant in Gilbert, according to court documents released Monday.
After surrendering to Gilbert police about 4:30 a.m. Friday, Robert Anthony Olson, 43, admitted to investigators that he manually shut down numerous valves to nine critical components of the plant at 4400 S. Greenfield Road.
His goal, police said, was to create a buildup of methane gas that could have caused an explosion "destroying a quarter city-block," court documents state.
Olson "believed his actions were justified because the city of Mesa management needed to know that the employees have power," police state in the new report.
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/04/04/20110404gilbert-water-plant-sabotage-abrk.html#ixzz1Ic2gIrjk
After surrendering to Gilbert police about 4:30 a.m. Friday, Robert Anthony Olson, 43, admitted to investigators that he manually shut down numerous valves to nine critical components of the plant at 4400 S. Greenfield Road.
His goal, police said, was to create a buildup of methane gas that could have caused an explosion "destroying a quarter city-block," court documents state.
Olson "believed his actions were justified because the city of Mesa management needed to know that the employees have power," police state in the new report.
continued:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/04/04/20110404gilbert-water-plant-sabotage-abrk.html#ixzz1Ic2gIrjk