N.Va. man charged with selling stolen gasoline for $2 a gallon

Published June 17, 2008 4:00am ET



An enterprising Northern Virginia man may have figured out a way to pump a bundle of cash out of climbing gas prices.

Police say Phillip Harris, 23, of Spotsylvania County, routinely snuck into a Woodbridge gas station after it closed for the day and sold off gas to his friends for a mere $2 a gallon, in a scheme they say netted more than $25,000.

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