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Newtown man charged with $1 million theft

BURLINGTON CITY — The general manager of Fastenal supply store has been charged with stealing and selling more than $1 million worth of company supplies and materials, police said.

Zachary J. Beyer, 26, of Newtown, Pa., was arrested Tuesday in Bucks County on a fugitive warrant issued by the Burlington City Police Department following an investigation into alleged criminal activities by Beyer.

Fastenal is a national chain that sells tools, parts, nuts and bolts, office supplies, building and plumbing materials and equipment.

Investigators said Beyer is accused of using his position as general manager of the Fastenal store on Route 130 in Burlington City to steal and sell materials from the company. He also manipulated company records, police said.

Police did not specify how long the alleged thefts occurred or the exact materials involved.

Beyer was charged with theft of movable property, forgery, receiving stolen property and fencing. He was placed in Bucks County Jail on $500,000 bail pending extradition to Burlington County.

Additional details about the case were not released due to a continuing investigation involving both Burlington City police and the FBI.

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Video cameras captured the fateful encounter between the two on a Brooklyn street, while Leiby's mother waited anxiously just a few blocks away. Detectives later found the boy's severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in the man's freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives.

At his arraignment Thursday afternoon, Aron appeared disheveled, confused and pale. He was held without bail, placed on suicide watch and protective custody after his lawyers said they feared he could do harm to himself.

Police and prosecutors said Aron, a clerk at a hardware supply store, has confessed to suffocating the boy with a bath towel, but they continued to work on verifying his horrific and bizarre explanation for the boy's death.

At the Kletzky household, his family also looked for answers, too.

"Why?" asked Shmuel Eckstein, a close family friend, as the boy's parents and five sisters sat and prayed. "We don't have that ... What we know is that through Leiby's death, God is sending us a huge signal — that we're doing something terribly wrong. And we're looking for what it is."

He added that the family was not looking for retribution.

"We're not into revenge," he said.

At a news conference, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Aron told investigators that after taking Leiby off the street Monday, he brought the boy to a wedding in the suburbs and spent several hours there.

Other wedding guests confirmed Aron was there but didn't see the boy, the commissioner added.

By the time the pair returned to the city, it was so late that Aron decided to take Leiby to his home to sleep and left him there Tuesday while he went to work, according to the police version of the confession. Kelly said the hardware supply store confirmed that Aron showed up as usual that day.

Aron told police he killed Leiby when he got home after being spooked by a massive search for the boy in Borough Park section of Brooklyn, home to one of the world's largest communities of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel.

Thousands of volunteers from the Hasidic community had assembled Monday evening to comb the streets, and the entire neighborhood was in a frenzy Tuesday over the lost child. Aron is Orthodox but not Hasidic. The Hasidim are ultra-Orthodox Jews.

"When I saw the fliers, I panicked and was afraid," Aron said, according to police.

Investigators have said Leiby may have been tied up and tried to fight off his captor before he was killed.

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