FBI investigation, accused of theft and landed with a crumbling bridge.
Wednesday was a bad day to be Leo A. Glodzik III.
In addition to an FBI raid on his business interests and a city shutdown of his Wilkes-Barre towing company due to alleged code violations, the state Department of Environmental Protection handed down an order requiring Glodzik to take action on a dilapidated railroad bridge over the Susquehanna River that he purchased in 2007.
The bridge crosses the river between the Coxton Railroad Yard in Duryea and Exeter Township.
Glodzik, 43, of Wilkes-Barre, is appealing a theft conviction handed down earlier this year after a jury found he removed $2,100 in cash from a vehicle he towed to his city garage on Jan. 29, 2013, having been told the vehicle was involved in a drug arrest. The money was left in the vehicle as part of an FBI sting operation.
FBI Public Affairs Specialist Carrie Adamowski confirmed agents were at another Glodzik enterprise, LAG Transport in Duryea, on Wednesday — and that no one had been taken into custody — but could not comment on why agents were at the property.
DEP’s administrative order is addressed to L.A.G. Wrecking, c/o Pilar Glodzik, a relative. But it was Leo Glodzik, doing business as L.A.G. Wrecking Inc., who purchased the span from the Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority for $500.
Wednesday’s order gives L.A.G. Wrecking 54 days to submit a permit application proposing to “remove or modify” the bridge in accordance with DEP requirements. If such a permit is approved, L.A.G. then has 180 days to take action.
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