CORTLANDVILLE -- Three men were arrested after allegedly stealing three chainsaws from a storage building in Cortlandville and trying to sell them off.
Deputies arrested three men for allegedly stealing three chainsaws from building on Route 13 in the Town of Cortlandville
Deputies arrested Matthew K. Schooley 32, of Cortland, Michael J. Murtha, 23, of Freeville, and Jeffrey S. Craig Jr., 35, of Cortland.
Deputies say the suspects entered a storage building on Route 13 and stole three chainsaws and pawned one of them off at a local pawn shop.
When the men were stopped by police, they still had two of the chain saws with them.
Schooley and Murtha were located by police at Riverside Plaza while waiting to sell the chain saw to another person who was coming to meet them. Police located Craig a short time later.
All three men are charged with felony burglary, petit larceny, and conspiracy. They were arraigned in the Town of Cortlandville Court and remanded to the Cortland County Jail in lieu of $15,000 cash or $30,000 bond. They were scheduled to reappear in the Town of Cortlandville Court on Thursday at noon.
