GUILFORD – The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office says two Afton brothers stripped metal pipes and radiators from the interior of a Guilford home to sell as scrap.
Deputies arrested 29-year-old Clifford J. Beardsley and 31-year-old Gary G. Beardsley of Afton Monday and charged them with third degree burglary.
Lt. Richard Cobb said the men removed all the radiators and copper piping from a Guilford home on Saturday.
Cobb said a woman in charge of caring for the unoccupied farmhouse used the home’s water the day before, but was unable to water livestock at the residence the following day.
“She returned the next day, except the water wasn’t working and when she went to investigate, she found all the copper piping in the basement was gone,” he said.
