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Employees disciplined
Two Maplewood city employees were front of the nursery when they were ap-
disciplined after an incident Oct.27 in- prehended by the nursery's owner.
volving theft from a Brooklyn Park The men were processed and later
nursery. released on their own recognizance.
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ERIC BLANK,acting Maplewood city
According to Brooklyn Park police, manager,confirmed that William C.Cass
they responded to a call after two men and James Elias,employees of the city's
had been placed under citizen's arrest at engineering department,were disciplined
Environmental Concepts Nursery in in connection with the incident.He said
Brooklyn Park.The men were allegedly that nine city employees were involved
putting trees into a motorhome parked in and that all were disciplined.Blank did
not say what form the discipline took,nor
did he name any of the others involved.
Blank stated that the people were at-
tending a dinner seminar for
metropolitan employees and that the
people were not on the city payroll at the
time,although they did recieve expenses
for the seminar.
The two men arrested will appear
before Hennepin County Municipal court.
The court gave Cass's scheduled ap-
pearance
as Thursday,Nov.9.Blank said
that one of the men will be charged with
theft of the trees,while the other faces
charges of concealment.
Blank said, "We have over 110 em-
ployees in the city.When a few of them do
something like this it reflects on all of us."
He said that he thought it was an un-
fortunate incident and that the city will be
looking towards preventing such in-
cidents in future.