Undercover buys lead to 4 arrests | Police/Fire
Executives at R3 Composites in Grabill could see the packaging on the stolen shower units was different, but the product was theirs. In June last year, they discovered their products being sold illegally on Facebook after an employee alerted them to the sites “Mancave” and “Garage Sale.” Documents filed in Allen Superior Court said the executives had a friend buy a shower from the sites and, after inspecting it, noticed it was one of the company's showers, down to the product name “Aquatic,” which is unique in the United States. The executives installed more security cameras at their manufacturing site on Roth Road and started reviewing footage . Video footage showed maintenance worker Joseph “Joey” Barone, 60, of the 600 block of Fallen Timbers Trail , driving away from the building with shower units or bathtubs loaded on the bed of his pickup truck. Another showed Barone using a forklift to load the units onto his truck, court records said. A timecard audit confirmed that Ba...