Jayce Peterson Sent To Prison For Stealing Campground Fees Using Welder’s Torch
CBS Denver 1/9/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Denver
DENVER (CBS4) Typically working at night, Jayce Peterson draped a tarp to hide the bright light from an oxy-acetylene welding torch and cut the locks off metal tubes used to collect fees at recreation areas in northwestern Colorado.
This, during the summer of 2018. Peterson hit 20 locations in the first two weeks of his operation. Several he struck more than once.
Thursday, a federal judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
In his plea agreement, Peterson agreed to stealing the money inside the fees tubes as well as numerous surveillance cameras placed at the sites to monitor such activity.