Amancio Alonso the owner and operator of
MacMillan Oil and his corporate oil transporter, Hialeah Transport LLC, were
each charged today with two counts of grand theft related to thefts from the
City of Hialeah and from Miami-Dade Aviation.
Both the City of Hialeah and Miami-Dade Aviation were making purchases
midgrade (89 octane) gasoline from MacMillan Oil. An investigation revealed that MacMillan Oil
purchased regular (87 octane) gasoline from Port Everglades and sold it to its
customers as if it was midgrade (89 octane) gasoline thereby overbilling Hialeah
and Miami-Dade Aviation about .07 cents per gallon purchased. Documents obtained from the City of Hialeah
revealed that the City of Hialeah was overbilled by $46,911.94. Documents obtained from the Miami-Dade
Aviation Department revealed that Miami-Dade Aviation Department was overbilled
by $3,362.30.
“I wanted to congratulate the detectives
from Miami-Dade Public Corruption Unit and the State Attorney’s Office Public
Corruption Task Force for putting together the pieces which led to these
arrests. With the consumption of this
gasoline, it could have been a very difficult crime to uncover,” commentated Miami Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez
Rundle. “Instead, we will be getting
this money back to the City of Hialeah and Miami-Dade County.”
As
part of the investigation, detectives from Miami-Dade Public Corruption Unit
and the State Attorney’s Public Corruption Task Force responded to MacMillan
Oil Company and executed a search warrant of the premises to obtain the
relevant documents. Amancio Alonso also admitted knowing that his drivers were
delivering regular gasoline but he and Hialeah Transport were charging for a
higher grade of gasoline. Alonso stated
that this was done when there was an order for midgrade and the plant did not
have enough of the midgrade blend.
Alonso stated that none of the staff of
MacMillan Oil’s billing department were aware of the overbilling and they would
just submit a bill based on the documents they received from the driver. Amancio Alonso was charged since he was the
owner of both Hialeah Transport and MacMillan Oil, and was responsible for
ordering the drivers employed by Hialeah Transport to falsify their delivery
records. Hialeah Transport was charged
since it employed the drivers that falsified the delivery tickets to the City
of Hialeah and to Miami-Dade Aviation.
