SYRACUSE -- Syracuse officials say they've been told by federal investigators that hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen from city parking meters over a six-year period.
According to Syracuse officials, the FBI says an employee of the company contracted to collect coins from city-owned meters stole $700,000 in quarters, dimes and nickels starting in 2000.
Authorities say the employee and a partner had made a copy of a key that opened the coin-filled cylinders that collected coins dropped into parking meters.
The FBI alerted city officials to the thefts last month. No one has been charged.
Court documents filed Wednesday reveal that the FBI was tipped off to the thefts by two defendants in an unrelated asbestos-removal fraud case in Utica.
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