Man arrested in brass pipe thefts

Lancaster Police have arrested a man they say stole three-thousand dollars worth of brass pipes from city workers’ trucks. 

40-year-old John Elliot Montgomery of Lancaster is charged with criminal trespassing and grand larceny.  Additional charges are pending.

Lancaster public works employees returned to work Tuesday and found several brass pipe fittings and fixtures had been stolen from their service trucks parked at the complex during the New Year’s day weekend.

Surveillance footage showed a man enter the property and remove the items from the vehicles.

On Wednesday, investigators located the property at a nearby scrap yard and returned it.