Crime & Safety
Police: Farmingville Man Sold Gas Directly From Fuel Truck
Robert Faulkner is issued summonses after police find more than 100 people lined up for gas in a parking lot on Portion Road.
A Farmingville man is in trouble after police say he sold gas directly out of a fuel delivery truck in a Lake Ronkonkoma parking lot Sunday night.
Robert Faulkner, 48, was issued summonses for handling flammable liquids without a permit and for improper dispensing of flammable liquids.
Faulkner was selling the fuel for $4.80 a gallon from a truck from the company he owns--Direct Marine Fuel Corporation--in the Lake Shore Plaza parking lot on Portion Road outside of the old Waldbaum's, police said.
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Officers who responded to a call observed more than 100 vehicles gathered in the lot and along Portion Road waiting to fill up.
A fire marshal from the Brookhaven Town Department of Building and Fire Prevention responded and issued Faulkner the summonses.
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The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance was also notified, police said.
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