by KYW's Brad Segall

A Philadelphia man will stand trial in Montgomery County on charges that he stole from his Plymouth Meeting company by using their credit card to buy gasoline for random customers at a city gas station to make himself some extra cash.

Prosecutors say defendant Michael Myers, of the 6200 block of Walker Street, was supposed to use the company credit card to buy gasoline for company equipment. Instead, they say, he was taking the card to a Sunoco station on Oregon Avenue in South Philadelphia and buying gas for everyone in line.

Court papers say that those people would pay him half the sale price in cash, which he admits he pocketed.
 
Prosecutor Tony Gil says Myers, 40, racked up more than $25,000 in fuel purchases in less than two months:

"The defendant is an opportunist. When gas prices go up, some people work a little harder, some people cut back. He just stole.”

Gil says police set up surveillance on Myers at the gas station after the company reported unusually high purchases on the credit card:

"Police followed him there, and upon arrival police saw Mr. Myers pumping gas in his own car, then pumping gas in somebody else’s car, then passing it off to somebody else, and so on and so forth.”

The charges include theft and receiving stolen property.

(File photo)