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Ex-Peco worker admits burglaries

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

By KEITH PHUCAS
Times Herald Staff

COURTHOUSE — A former Peco Energy worker admitted stealing computers and other equipment at three of the company’s offices in 2007.
Robert Gravinese, 48, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty Tuesday burglary, according to Montgomery County court papers. His sentencing was deferred.

During the investigation, the defendant turned over at least 70 stolen items that he had taken from Peco offices in Montgomery and Chester counties.

Gravinese, who quit working for the energy supplier’s Facilities Department prior to the burglaries, still had master keys to buildings. He was identified on surveillance video inside the Peco Training Center, 2001 Gallagher Road, in Plymouth Meeting, according to a criminal complaint.

An office burglary was reported April 5, 2007 at a Peco office on Swedesford Road in Tredyffrin Township.

Five days later, the Peco Gas Plant offices on River Road in West Conshohocken reported a IBM Thinkpad computer, a computer monitor and other accessories missing, authorities reported.

On April 29, 2007, the former employee used a key to get into the training center in Plymouth Meeting and took a Lenovo T-60 laptop computer. Around this same time period, Gravinese returned to the Swedesford Road office and took a Canon scanner and digital camera, color printer, and IBM docking station, memory stick and a floppy disk drive.

As well, the burglar got into locked offices and employees’ cubicles and stole assorted tools, a wireless mouse and two pairs of binoculars, according to the affidavit.

When first confronted with the allegations by Plymouth Township Detective Jeffrey McGee on May 7, 2007, Gravinese denied having anything to do with the theft, but days later he admitted to the burglaries.