Man accused of selling beer in used cups at Bucs game
By Associated Press
Published November 20, 2003
TAMPA - A concessions worker filled used plastic cups with beer and resold them at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game Sunday, pocketing $1,080 in unreported sales, police said.
John Angelus Keene, 68, was charged with felony grand theft, Tampa police Detective Bill Todd said. He was released from the Orient Road jail on $2,000 bail Monday.
Keene could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Todd said he observed Keene picking up used cups from tables and refilling them without rinsing them at a Bud Light booth near the south end zone of Raymond James Stadium.
"I've never seen anything like it," said Todd, who works stadium security at Buccaneers games. "Naturally, you think of health issues."
Keene was a volunteer with a military retiree group manning the booth, but Todd did not know the name of the group. Aramark Inc., the Philadelphia food service company that provides stadium concessions, declined to release the name of the organization.
The food service company alerted police after noticing that more beer was being sold at Keene's booth than was being reported.
Keene told police that he planned to turn in the cash, but detectives found he already had signed a voucher for the day's sales, Todd said.
