British-Canadian actor, Forbes March has been charged with grand larceny in connection with accusations he stole used cooking oil from a diner.
The 49-year-old actor was arrested on March 2 in Hudson County, New York Ulster Police Department said the oil has an estimated value of more than $1,000, according to Deadline.
However, March and Oscar Guardado, 30 allegedly pilfered the oil from a storage container via siphoning from an organization called Buffalo Biodiesel, which picks up used cooking oil from restaurants in 12 states.
The tank was being kept behind the restaurant Michael’s Diner, authorities said.
March most famously played the role of Nash Brennan on 208 episodes of One Life to Live from 2005–2008.
March – who has also worked on shows such as ‘As the World Turns’, ‘Mutant X’, and ‘All My Children’ and Guardado were both released from custody after being arrested, police told the outlet.
Both men are slated to appear in the Town of Ulster Court to face expected charges of fourth degree grand larceny.
Theft of used oil, which can be used in the making of biofuels, has spiked in the Northeast of the U.S. amid rising fuel costs in recent years.
Buffalo Biodiesel president Sumit Majumdar said in an interview last November that numbers of oil thefts have been ‘ballooning’ in recent years, KTLA reported.
‘It’s wiping out a third of our business,’ Majumdar said. ‘To put that into numbers: $10 million to $15 million a year.’
March is the owner of a business named The New York Firewood Company, which delivers firewood for home and restaurants from his ‘small farm in the Catskills, 10 Minutes from the old Woodstock Site,’ according to the company’s site.
