ATHOL, Idaho--A gas station in Athol, ID mistakenly sold gas for one cent per gallon for a couple of hours in the middle of the night and now the station's owner wants to prosecute two customers who didn't return to pay the difference.
In a criminal complaint to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, Deborah Felts, the owner of the Cydco Food and Fuel in Athol, said that on Oct. 24th between 1:45 a.m. and 3:40 a.m. pump number three at her station along Highway 95 sold regular unleaded gas for one cent per gallon. Normally it would have sold for $2.86/gallon on that day.
Felts said the cheap price was not intentional and could possibly be a computer or electronic malfunction.
Felts said four customers came in during that time and filled up. Two of the customers returned later in the day to pay up what they owed, but two others did not. Credit card records showed one of them called a friend to tell him about the cheap price and the friend showed up. Both of those suspects later came back and filled up again.
The station lost a total of $1,076 worth of gas that day.
Felts said she has contacted her credit card administrator to help track down the suspects because the video surveillance at her store stopped working the day before the thefts.
Felts told deputies that she would like to prosecute the two people who haven't returned to pay her back. They would face potential charges of two counts of petty theft.
