Because He Felt He Could Get Away With It
by Chicher • Thursday, May 28th, 2009 - 8:11 pmTagged: IRS, Michael Hicks, elevator, urinatingMan Accused Of Urinating In IRS Elevator
DETROIT — An agent used surveillance cameras to confirm a smelly suspicion: Someone had been urinating in a freight elevator at an Internal Revenue Service data center in Detroit.
Authorities filed a criminal charge Tuesday against Michael Hicks. In an affidavit, treasury agent Delmaria Scott said she interviewed Hicks in January 2008 and he admitted urinating in the elevator for months.
Scott said Hicks did it “because he felt he could get away with it.” It cost $4,600 to clean the elevator.
Hicks, who was a contract employee at the IRS, was charged with damaging federal property. A defense lawyer was not listed.
Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for prosecutors, said the government was unsuccessful in trying to resolve the case without a criminal charge.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
$4,600 to clean it? Figures... big government spending. They should have called me. I'd of cleaned it for $2,000.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I would have cleaned it for a grand and then pissed in it before I left.