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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...

A 3-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital Monday after he was found at the bottom of a pool in an Oakland Park apartment complex . The toddler had been playing with his teenage brother and sister near the basketball courts inside La Estancia Apartments , but ran off, said Linda Bowers, property manager at the complex located in the 4100 block of Northwest 21st Avenue . "Apparently they saw him run away, and they thought he went home to the mom and when the mom came down looking for the little boy that's when the brother and sister realized he wasn't with the mom," Bowers said. Maintenance worker Greg Johnson , 26, was walking toward the pool when he heard the boy's mother scream. "As soon as she opened the gate, she started screaming, so I actually ran over and was able to help her grab the kid out [of the pool] and immediately performed CPR on the boy," Johnson said. "As she handed me the boy I knew he was in bad shape." It was unknown ho...