BOYNTON BEACH — Todd Barnes found out Wednesday night exactly how far he could get after allegedly stealing a big green construction machine in broad daylight.Not quite a mile.
At around 7:31 p.m. Wednesday, a resident of the Bermuda Cay Apartments at 611 E. Woolbright Rd., just east of the Intracoastal Waterway, spotted Barnes hopping into a very large green All-Terrain forklift at a nearby construction site and drive away. She called police, who found Barnes trundling northward on Federal Highway in the forklift.
Unlike the smaller forklifts used to move pallets of merchandise, this model weighs 21,600 lbs., and can lift up to 6,000 lbs. of material, such as concrete roofing tiles, up and over a building, according to Sunbelt Rentals, which rents heavy equipment. The forklift, with its large-tread tires and forklift, dwarfed the two police cars that pulled it over.
Barnes told police officers he was moving the forklift to another job site. Checking out Barnes' story, officers found that he did not work for Worth Contracting Inc., the company working at the site, and was not carrying his driver license.
After being charged with grand larceny, trespassing on a construction site and driving with a suspended license, Barnes spent the night in the Palm Beach County Jail.
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