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Former employee of equipment store caught on video driving forklift through business

Surveillance video from inside a Utica equipment rental store captures a former disgruntled employee driving a forklift through counters and walls. 

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The former employee's goal was to get into the safe, police say. He got far less and far more at the same time. He walked away empty-handed from Utica Rent-All and is now facing prison time.

Former employee of Utica equipment store caught on video driving forklift through business

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Kayla is a Web Producer for ClickOnDetroit. Before she joined the team in 2018 she worked at WILX in Lansing as a digital producer.