Bridgeport Man Found Guilty of Stealing Parts from Norristown Cars

According to CBS 3, a Bridgeport man could face up to 10-and-a-half years in prison for a string of thefts that occurred between April and July of last year at the .

Lewis Granger, 38, of Bridgeport, was found guilty of eight counts of theft by unlawful taking in a Montgomery County court this week.

Authorities say Granger would wait for people to park at the SEPTA station and get on a train. He would then use a battery-powered saw to remove catalytic converters from the cars which he would then sell to a scrap dealer or pawn shop for up to $100.

“And it’s just a sad situation because no one has an extra thousand dollars to get this repaired," Montgomery County prosecutor Prince Holloway told CBS. "So you have normal people going to work, doing the right thing, and then you have someone like the defendant taking a lot of negative energy and stealing something.”

According to a report last year in The Times Herald, Granger was caught at Main and Markley streets in mid July of 2011 with a black bag that contained a Ryobi Sawzall, extra blades, batteries, a charger and a flashlight. Granger reportedly admitted to police that he used the saw to remove about eight converters from vehicles in SEPTA lots at Main and Markley and the Norristown Transportation Center.