By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Police found another skimmer on a gas pump in Salina.
On Monday, shortly before an alarm went off on a pump at Flying J Travel Center, 2250 N. Ohio Street, something similar happened at Pilot Travel Center, 1944 N. Ninth Street.
Employees at Pilot reported to police on Tuesday morning that at 11:20 p.m. Monday, an alarm on one of Pilot's pumps went off. That was approximately 10 minutes before a pump alarm went off at Flying J.
Forrester said that when the alarm activated at Pilot, employees saw a male subject walking from the pump and leaving in a gray tractor pulling a while trailer with a blue stripe down the side. When they went out to the pump, they found the same style skimmer as the two found at Flying J.
Just under $1,000 worth of damage was done to the pump, Forrester said.
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By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Two skimmers have been located on pumps at a north Salina travel center.
Officers were first sent to Flying J Travel Center, 2250 N. Ohio Street, on Friday for the report of a skimmer on a pump, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester reported Tuesday. Flying J had received an alarm on a pump, which also shut off the pump.
At approximately 1:40 p.m. on Friday, a white male with gray hair and a gray goatee, and wearing a black t-shirt went into Flying J and asked for the pump to be turned on. An employee told him that maintenance was looking at the pump to make sure no skimmers had been put on the pump, Forrester said. The man left without purchasing any fuel.
Maintenance did find a skimmer on that pump.
On Monday night, officers returned to Flying J for the report of another skimmer possibly being placed on another pump. An employee told officers, that an alarm from the pump went off at approximately 11:30 p.m. Monday, Forrester said.
A gray tractor-trailor rig was at the pumps. When the employee went out to check the pump that had an alarm sounding, a Hispanic male hurried away and got into the tractor-trailer rig and left, despite requests from the employee to stop, Forrester said. When the pump was opened, officers located a skimmer inside.
Forrester said it is believed that there were no victims from the two skimmer attempts.