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# Drug Addict Busted In Manhole Cover Theft
- URL: https://bklyner.com/drug-addict-busted-in-manhole-cover-theft-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2012-05-10T19:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2012-05-10T17:29:38.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: andrew modica, ave w, east 28th st, manhole cover thefts, #API-Imported

![Surveillance video of April 22 theft.](http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2012/05/10/news/web_photos/Manholecovertheft5-03-12094125--525x300.jpg)

Surveillance video via NY Post

Authorities have nabbed a man they say [stole many of the 30 manhole covers](/theft-of-manhole-covers-on-the-rise-even-in-sheepshead-bay/) in the last two months in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

The [New York Post reports](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/drug%5Faddict%5Fbusted%5Fin%5Fcity%5Fwide%5Fn0l5jhtIGptSQVqfGOq1jJ?ref=bklyner.com) that they’ve [arrested Andrew Modica, 46, in connection with the theft of Con Edison’s 320-pound cast iron covers](http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2012/05/bensonhurst-man-arrested-for-manhole-lid-theft-drug-addiction-cited-as-motive/?ref=bklyner.com), which he confessed to selling for about 12 1/2 to 15 centers per pound – or approximately $40 each. They cost the company $200 each to replace.

He was busted yesterday, when officers pulled him over in a stolen pickup truck near his home on 67th Street and 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst. He is charged with criminal possession of stolen property and criminal impersonation – the latter due to the fact that he dressed as a Con Edison worker in the course of his crimes.

According to the Post, Modica stole to fuel his addiction to crack, cocaine and heroin.