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CONCORD, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) – North Carolina authorities say two men are facing charges for stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of electricity from a substation near Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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Warrants allege 55-year-old Michael Keith Kluttz and 65-year-old Edward Jerome Little stole power from a Duke Energy substation just outside the iconic race track.
According to the warrants, Kluttz and Little were Duke employees and gained “unauthorized power” for Ver-El RV Park, a campground across from Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Warrants said the allegedly stolen power was valued at about $591,000.
Kluttz and Little were charged with the following offenses: injure an energy facility, obtaining property by false pretense greater than $100,000 and money laundering greater than $100,000
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A warrant showed Little was also charged with two counts of possessing a weapon of mass destruction. The warrant indicated those charges stemmed from having a fully automatic gun.
Records showed both men were arrested Thursday. They were booked into the Cabarrus County jail and were scheduled to appear in court Friday.
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