ICYMI: Six Atlanta City Workers Arrested on Theft Charges

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Four more City of Atlanta employees have been arrested in the course of an investigation into theft of city property.

Edward Earl Childs, Oscar Dawson, Ricardo Dupree and Len Antonio Goggins, Jr., were all arrested on Monday on suspicion that they took metal from the Atlanta Public Works Department’s facility on Claire Drive and sold it, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The arrests are part of a crackdown on lax security at the public works and water departments, which have allegedly been unable to account for millions of dollars of city property such as industrial water meters, metal piping, and even a backhoe, the AJC writes.

Last Monday, Atlanta Department of Watershed Management employees Charles Edwards and William Spaulding were arrested on suspicion of selling scrap metal and pipes over the course of several years;

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