RTD Phantom Warehouse Suspect Back in Custody
Franklin C. Jack, 50, who jumped bail in 1987 after being accused with others of stealing Rapid Transit District bus parts in a “phantom warehouse” scandal that cost the transit district up to $1.5 million, has been taken back into custody, the district attorney’s office said Friday.
Jack, who is scheduled to be arraigned March 19 in Municipal Court in Los Angeles, faces charges of grand theft and conspiracy in the loss of $2,700 in parts that moonlighting RTD employees used to repair private buses.
After his arrest in April, 1987, Jack was released on $30,000 bail; he failed to appear for a Municipal Court arraignment in June, 1987.
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