A Massapequa man was found guilty in a plot to steal $250,000 worth of copper wire belonging to the Long Island Rail Road.
Michael Carsten, a former LIRR signalman , was found guilty on two counts of Conspiracy in the 5th Degree.
He was among 17 people charged in the crime. The stolen wire was lifted from scrap bins in Nassau, Brooklyn, Queens and Suffolk between 2010, and 2013, prosecutors said.
It was needed for signal communications and electrical transmission.
Using LIRR trucks to transport the wire to their own personal vehicles the thieves sold the stolen material for a total of $253,694.
Carsten faces a maximum sentence of a year in jail when he's sentenced in January.
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