LOUISVILLE MAN SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS AND 1 MONTH FOR THE
INTERSTATE SALE OF STOLEN GOODS
–Over $400,000 loss

David L. Huber, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced today that WILLIAM WESTERFIELD, age 52, of 908 Perryman Road, Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County, was sentenced in United States District Court, Louisville, Kentucky, for stealing aluminum containers from a Louisville business and transporting them and selling them across state lines in Indiana.

John G. Heyburn, II, Chief Judge, United States District Court, sentenced Westerfield to 3 years and 1 month imprisonment, plus 3 years supervised release following incarceration. In addition, restitution in the amount of $415,002 was imposed.

Westerfield was a Director of Parker Commercial Storage & Distribution, a Louisville company that loaded, unloaded, stored, cleaned, and repaired aluminum shipping containers used to ship rubber products. Westerfield admitted that between February 1, 2001, and October 31, 2003, he stole thousands of shipping containers by loading them onto trucks after business hours and shipping them across state lines to Indiana, where they were sold for scrap, resulting in a $415,002 loss.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David Weiser and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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