Man Charged in Thefts From Northwest Forests
A man has been arrested on charges of stealing saplings worth $62,000 from at least five national forests in Washington and Oregon and selling them to nurseries.
Greg A. Gray of Oakville in southwestern Washington is scheduled for a bail hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court. He has been indicted on 36 counts of theft of government property and 35 counts of money laundering
“This is one of the largest investigations of forest products theft we have ever conducted in Oregon and Washington,” Ron Pugh, chief of Forest Service criminal investigations in the two states, told the Olympian newspaper in Olympia.
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