{"id":1170,"date":"2013-07-10T07:51:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T02:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/07\/10\/furniture-theft-case-turned-over-to-ags-office\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T02:21:33","slug":"furniture-theft-case-turned-over-to-ags-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/furniture-theft-case-turned-over-to-ags-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Furniture theft case turned over to AG&#039;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT AIRY, N.C. The North Carolina Attorney General&#8217;s office will prosecute eight former employees of Bassett Furniture Industries who are accused of stealing two (m) million dollars of furniture over seven years.<br \/>\n        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nBassett is based in Galax, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>An investigator in Surry County, North Carolina says the case was too complex for local prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were among the best-paid employees of Bassett&#8217;s plant in Mount Airy and had worked for the company for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them was charged in November with seven felony counts of conspiracy to commit embezzlement in excess of 100 thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they took one or two pieces of bedroom furniture, wardrobes and wooden tables at a time. They eventually stole enough to fill seven tractor-trailers. About 300 pieces of furniture have been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Winston-Salem Journal, http:\/\/www.journalnow.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT AIRY, N.C. The North Carolina Attorney General&#8217;s office will prosecute eight former employees of Bassett Furniture Industries who are accused of stealing two (m) million dollars of furniture over seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}